Times Square is the number-one visited place globally with 360,000 pedestrian visitors a day, amounting to over 131 million a year.[53] It has a greater attendance than all of the Disney theme parks worldwide, with 128,794,000 visitors between March 2012 and February 2013, versus 126,479,000 for Walt Disney World attractions in 2012.[53][54]
Just counting tourists, rather than residents, it is the number two tourist attraction in the world behind the Las Vegas Strip.[55] This high level of traffic translates into $4.8 billion in annual retail, entertainment and hotel sales,[56] with 22 cents out of every dollar spent by visitors in New York City being spent within Times Square.