Rotorua has been named among the top 10 trending global destinations by major travel website Booking.com.

It comes as the tourism hotspot’s business community anticipates a positive year ahead, with more than 100 companies across 20 industries seeing visitors returning to the city.

Booking.com looked at customer bookings for travel in the coming two years that were made in the 12 months to the end of July.

The top 1000 most-booked places were ranked by year-over-year increase.

Rotorua ranked