The city so nice they named it twice isn't even mentioned once in a top 10 list of the world's most visited cities. New York, which has been a top 10 regular since 2013 slipped to 11th place in 2019, according to a report issued Wednesday by international marketing company Euromonitor.

3 Hong Kong On Top

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The Big Apple, which reportedly received 14 million visitors in 2019, was bumped out of 10th spot by Kuala Lumpur at 14.1 million. Even the protests and riots currently creating unrest in Hong Kong wasn't enough to shake the city from its top berth with 26.7 million visitors hitting the metropolis, most of them from mainland China.

Bangkok was a close second at 25.8 million, followed by Macau (20.6 million), Singapore (19.7 million) and London (19.5) comprising the top five. Rounding out the top 1o are Paris (19.1 million), Dubai (16.3 million), Delhi (15.2 million), Istanbul (14.7 million) and Kuala Lumpur.

2 Underdeveloped Infrastructure

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Taking data from part of 2018 as well as the bulk of 2019 with estimates to fill in any blanks for the rest of this year, Euromonitor said that while New York remains the most popular U.S. city on its annual top 100 list, a shortfall in affordable accommodations and an underdeveloped urban infrastructure contributed to its decline. And while the report applauded short-term rentals by the likes of airbnb, VRBO and TripAdvisor for taking proposed legislation to limit their growth may turn off certain demographics, especially millennials.

Euromonitor observed that while Hong Kong occupies top spot, its status is rapidly dropping with a projected 8.7 downturn in visitors this year. Meanwhile, runner-up Bangkok enjoyed a spike of nearly seven percent, which was impressive but not enough to overtake Hong Kong.

1 London In Top 5

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London's fifth-place finish solidifies the British metropolis as Europe's most popular urban destination, but even then, its number are also on the decline, given that it finished in third place in 2018. Uncertainty over the future of the Brexit initiative that favors the U.K. leaving the European Union was cited as a major cause of dropping visits.

Besides New York, other U.S. cities that made it into the Euromonitor Top 100 were Miami (27th), Los Angeles (29th) Las Vegas (34th) and Honolulu (81st), although the report indicated that all of them fell in terms of rankings compared to 2018.