GLOBAL CITIES - INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL CENTERS
The purpose of the study is to prove that modern global cities are major international tourist centers. Scientific novelty - addressing the category of "global (world) cities" in the geography of tourism using the current expert ranking of such cities (from the Global Cities Report 2022) and the author's analysis of key indicators of urban tourism and transport statistics. The main method is a statistical and graphical comparison of global cities in order to obtain a quantitative idea of the role of these cities in the global tourism space.