Study Reveals the Planet's 'Most' and 'Least' Polluted Holiday Destinations OR-Politics.com
go to original November 26, 2015

Paris, the City of Light, has been dimmer of late. A recent report has compared a bad day in the capital to being trapped in a room with eight smokers. (The New York Times)

According to new research, some of the most frequently traveled global cities are among the most ‘polluted’ holiday destinations on the planet. The 2015 study, surveying as many as 28 major world cities in terms of ‘Air Quality’ has disclosed some absorbing findings.

The research compared cities and their ‘Air Quality Index’ based on their respective levels of air pollution that may have detrimental implications for travelers owing to hazardous air pollutants active in the atmosphere.

According to the study Thailand’s capital city ‘Bangkok‘ has featured as the leading ‘least’ polluted urban destination in the world, followed by USA’s Washington DC, San Francisco and Spain’s Madrid. Also featuring prominently on the list of environmentally healthy global destinations are New York City, Paris and Sao Paulo. Similarly, exceedingly popular cities such as London, Sydney, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Rome, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Mexico City have also fared ‘moderately’ well according to the findings.

However, those featuring on the opposite side of the rankings included major urban hubs namely Beijing (China), Dubai (UAE) and Mumbai (India) ranked among the most polluted cities for international travel with Beijing ostensibly the most environmentally ‘hazardous’ destination. Not straggling too far behind are Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur and Turkey’s Istanbul and capital Ankara, ranked as relatively ‘unhealthy’.

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