SINGAPORE, Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdvisor( http://www.tripadvisor.com )(TM), the world's largest travel site, today reveals the results of its Cities Survey, which looks at how international and local travellers view forty key tourist cities around the world.

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The results were compiled based on more than 75,000 responses to a survey sent to those who have recently written TripAdvisor reviews on the featured cities.

Getting around

Taxi services and local public transport were considered best in Tokyo, while Singapore ranked second for taxi services and fifth for other public transport.

# Best Taxi # Best Public

Services Transport

1 Tokyo 1 Tokyo

2 Singapore 2 Zurich

3 Dubai 3 Munich

4 Dublin 4 Vienna

5 London 5 Singapore

6 Cancun 6 Hong Kong

7 Munich 7 Stockholm

8 Seoul 8 Amsterdam

9 Dubrovnik 9 Seoul

10 Barcelona 10 Paris

Zurich topped the list in terms of ease in getting around the city, followed by Vienna and Singapore, while Tokyo and Hong Kong came in seventh and ninth positions respectively.

Cleanliness and safety matters

The streets of Tokyo and Singapore took the first and second places respectively for both the cleanliness and how safe respondents felt in each city.

# Cleanest Streets # Safest Streets

1 Tokyo 1 Tokyo

2 Singapore 2 Singapore

3 Zurich 3 Dubrovnik

4 Vienna 4 Zurich

5 Stockholm 5 Vienna

6 Dubai 6 Stockholm

7 Dubrovnik 7 Dubai

8 Munich 8 Seoul

9 Copenhagen 9 Munich

10 Prague 10 Copenhagen

Who's the friendliest of them all?

Cancun topped the list for having the friendliest locals and in Asia, Tokyo (second) and Bangkok (seventh) were both featured in the top 10.

In terms of the friendliest taxi drivers, Tokyo and Singapore came in first and third places respectively.

# Friendliest People # Friendliest Taxi Drivers

1 Cancun 1 Tokyo

2 Tokyo 2 Cancun

3 Lisbon 3 Singapore

4 Istanbul 4 Punta Cana

5 Cape Town 5 Dublin

6 Dubrovnik 6 Dubrovnik

7 Bangkok 7 Cape Town

8 Punta Cana 8 Lisbon

9 Amsterdam 9 Barcelona

10 Copenhagen 10 Munich

Shopping Paradise

According to respondents, New York City was the ultimate paradise when it comes to shopping, coming in first place. In Asia, Bangkok was the other shopping heaven as a runner up, while Tokyo (fifth), Hong Kong (sixth), Kuala Lumpur (eighth) made up the rest of the Asian destinations in the top ten.

Get your money's worth

To get your money's worth, respondents said Lisbon is the best place. In Asia, Bangkok (third), Hanoi (fourth) and Kuala Lumpur (ninth) also featured strongly in the list.

"Whilst the greatness of a city isn't defined by just these factors, cleanliness, safety, value-for-money, ease of using local transport and even the friendliness of locals can be important when it comes to the rating of a city," said Jean Ow-Yeong, TripAdvisor spokesperson. "It is therefore encouraging to see that Asian cities like Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur have ranked favourably on the world stage for many of these categories."

Note to Editors:

The survey was sent to those that have written a review on either a hotel, restaurant or attraction in the featured cities in during 2012, with the majority of surveys sent to travellers and the remainder to locals. To be included in the results a city had a minimum of 300 completed responses, with the ranking based on average scores for each question. All analysis was conducted by Brainbox Research. The selection of featured cities is based on the key cities from countries which receive the largest number of international visitor arrivals (data compiled by the UNWTO 2010).

About TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor(TM) is the world's largest travel site,* enabling travellers to plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travellers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools. TripAdvisor branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 60 million unique monthly visitors*, and over 75 million reviews and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com( http://www.daodao.com ). TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to millions of monthly TripAdvisor visitors.

TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP) manages and operates websites under 19 other travel media brands, and together the sites attract more than 74 millionunique monthly visitors.** TripAdvisor, Inc.'s travel media brands include www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bookingbuddy.com, www.cruisecritic.com, www.everytrail.com, www.familyvacationcritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.holidaywatchdog.com, www.independenttraveler.com, www.onetime.com, www.seatguru.com, www.sniqueaway.com, www.smartertravel.com, www.tingo.com, www.travel-library.com, www.travelpod.com, www.virtualtourist.com, www.whereivebeen.com, and www.kuxun.cn.

*Source: comScore Media Metrix for TripAdvisor Sites, Worldwide, July 2012

**Source: comScore Media Metrix for TripAdvisor, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Worldwide, July 2012

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