New Zealand has been named among the top five popular tourist destinations in an international survey.

The United States was voted the most popular while Australia was runner-up in the Lonely Planet Travellers' Pulse Survey.

The US collected 1509 of the 17,500 votes from 132 countries, followed by Australia with 1222.

The United Kingdom took out bronze (965 votes) while Italy (836 votes) and New Zealand (648 votes) rounded out the top five.

New Zealand last year only just scraped into the top 10 at ninth.
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