Kuala Lumpur ranked by Forbes Advisor as a riskier city for tourists than Bangkok
The Forbes Advisor survey of the risks for tourists in international cities has just been released. Kuala Lumpur was rated as the 29 most risky city for tourists. The evaluation, detailed in the article “12 Best Travel Insurance Companies of July 2024”, analysed 60 major cities worldwide across seven crucial risk metrics: travel safety, crime, personal security, health security, infrastructure, natural disaster, and digital security.
Topping the list of risky destinations was Caracas, Venezuela, scoring a perfect 100. Following closely were Karachi at 93.12, Yangon at 91.67, Lagos in Nigeria at 91.54, and Manila at 91.49. These cities faced high risks primarily in crime, personal security, and health security.
Kuala Lumpur’s cumulative risk score stood at 55.33, driven significantly by personal security concerns, scoring 28 each, followed by infrastructure security concerns which scored 26. Kuala Lumpur scored 23 in health, 24 in infrastructure security, and 15 in crime risk.
This compares with Bangkok’s risk score at 53.34, driven significantly by crime and health security concerns, scoring 39 each in these categories. Bangkok scored better in other aspects: infrastructure scored 22, digital security 17, and personal security a notable low at 5.
The study found Singapore to be the safest city for tourists, with a negligible risk score of zero. After Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Sydney, and Zurich were the safest cities.
The riskiest city was Caracas at 100, Karachi at 93.12, Yangon at 91.54, and Lagos at 91.54. Ho Chi Minh City scored 61.83 and Jakarta 81.98.
The full results of the survey can be found here.
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We sure are going to see more negative stuff emanating from Washington after Malaysia openly challanged the USA by declaring that it will join BRICS. And more belligerently, recently stating that its foreign policy would not be be influenced by American pressure.
These are political assessments driven by personal political likes and dislikes and perceptions that are as colourable and influenced by an envious and mainly Western media. New York, Los Angeles and Dallas are far more violent, crime infested and dangerous for tourists (including interstate American tourists).
In a nation with (FBI Stats) over 50,000 reported only rapes per year, 100,000 drug deaths, around the same number of murders and acts of gun violence, 26,000,000 drug addicts and theft so extensive they do not rate anymore on the scale because pople no longer complain about it.
In the slums of Petare there was order (where we filmed part of a documentary 2 years ago) which we struggled to find in Miami, New York or Dallas where we also filmed part of that documentary.
This is a political statment by Forbes rather than an independent and unbiased forensic assessment.