Tokyo treat

According to Post Office Travel Money, the cost of eating out is lowest in Tokyo, where a three-course evening meal for two with a bottle of house wine costs less than £34. On that basis, the price of eating out for three evenings in Japan costs around the same as one meal in Singapore – which came in at £101, according to the study.

When it came to closeness, the study found that Dubai – which has the shortest flight time of the 10 cities at seven hours – proved to be the cheapest of five cities that take eight hours or less to fly to from the UK.

At £361 for the 11 barometer items, prices in the emirate were less than half those in Boston (£823) – the most expensive city in the survey.

The £668 cost for three nights’ four-star accommodation in the US east coast city was the highest price tag out of the 10 destinations. Elsewhere in North America, Washington DC was the cheapest compared with New York, Boston and Toronto for all 11 items.

At £504, Post Office Travel Money said the US capital benefited from well-priced accommodation – £382 for three nights – as well as free entry to “top galleries and museums”, including the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute.

By contrast, visits to sightseeing attractions in New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of National History and Ellis Island/the Statue of Liberty) will set British tourists back more than £56.

Including accommodation, New York is the priciest global city for the 11 tourist items at £711. Across the border though in Toronto, prices are lower than in either New York or Boston, with the 11 items coming to £612.

Brown added: “Holidaymakers will need to factor in flight costs to the price they will pay for hotels, meals, drinks and sightseeing but these can be surprisingly cheap now that low-cost carriers are competing for long-haul business.”