This is a fun item. A website called Radical Storage took a look at nearly 100,000 Google reviews from the top 10 most-reviewed tourist attractions in 100 cities around the world and looked for words like “overrated” or “disappointing.”
They then came up with a list of the ten most underwhelming/disappointing/overrated destinations around the world. They also published a list of the ten most surprising/underrated destinations. Here’s a look.
OVERRATED/DISAPPOINTING
- Cancun, Mexico
- Antalya, Turkiye
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Beijing, China
- Orlando, Florida
- Mumbai, India
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Johor Bahru, Indonesia
- Kyot0, Japan
- Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Cancun, Mexico. JIM BYERS PHOTO
UNDERRATED/SURPRISING
- Guangzhou, China
- Lima, Peru
- Muscat, Oman
- Sapporo, Japan
- Zhuhai, China
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Santiago, Chile
- Tallinn, Estonia
- Shenzhen, China
- A tie: Delhi, India; Mecca, Saudi Arabia; Guilin, China
Okay, what are some destinations you find overrated or underrated? I’ll st
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. JIM BYERS PHOTO
art things off with a city I’ve never taken a shining to, and that’s Atlanta. I guess the food is good, but I’ve quite figured out the attraction. Underrated? A few come to mind: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada, the entire country of Slovenia, and the city of Hilo on Hawai’i Big Island.
DROP ME A LINE in the comments section and let me know what you think.
NEW TORONTO TOURISM AD
Destination Toronto has a cool new ad with the theme “100%,” which talks about how the city embraces diversity and different ways of life all the time. I quite like it, and it seems to me as a bit of a reply to the goings on south of the border, where diversity seems to be under constant attack from the Trump administration.
