Bangkok is the world’s most visited city. But badly behaved tourists are creating problems in Asia

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In our roundup of travel news this week: the world’s top 100 cities for 2025, the world’s best hotels, the world’s tallest hotel, the world’s longest, deepest, undersea rail tunnel, plus two new record-breaking bridges in China and Kashmir.

Forget Miss Universe, Paris is the travel world’s pageant queen this week, having been named the most attractive city on the planet for the fifth year in a row.

The Top 100 City Destinations Index by data analytics company Euromonitor International looks at leading cities from around the world and ranks them on criteria including tourism, sustainability, economic performance and health and safety.

All that popularity comes at a price though, for non-European visitors at least. The Louvre Museum in Paris will be hiking entrance fees by 45% for art-lovers from outside the European Economic Area, starting New Year.