Metro report– Some countries many holiday makers long for have dark records of foreign women being harassed and sometimes even abused on the streets.
Exotic locations such as India, Moscow and Colombia were all included on the list of locations with the most unsafe transport systems for women created by YouGov.
However London and New York both featured in the top 16 as well.
Experts say that while people expect these attitudes towards women in countries such as India, holiday makers travelling to places such as Morocco and Turkey should also exercise caution.
India has seen a high number of rapes and sexual assaults directed towards women in the past few years, however social outcry has forced the government to attempt to turn the country into a safer pace for women.
Although attitudes towards women are getting better in Europe and North America, females are still regularly abused in the form of cat calling and curb crawling in places such as Paris, London and New York.
Julie Kreutzer, co-owner of website the International Women’s Travel Center, told MailOnline: ‘I’m truly appalled at how unsafe and how unfriendly some places are. You can’t even enter some countries if you’re a woman, yet most travel websites just skirt around the issue and prefer to focus on what lipstick a woman should wear.’
Many travel guides such as Lonely Planet contain sections on safety for female travellers, however Ms Kreutzer says these statistics show that ‘women are not welcome everywhere’.
However other travel bloggers say the worst case scenarios are always reported on, and that potential travellers should not be put off visiting a country because of this.
The full list of most unsafe cities for women to travel in is:
1. Bogota, Colombia
2. Mexico City
3. Lima, Peru
4. New Delhi
5. Jakarta, Indonesia
6. Buenos Aires, Argentina
7. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
8. Bangkok
9. Moscow
10. Manila, Philippines
11. Paris
12. Seoul, South Korea
13. London
14. Beijing
15. Tokyo
16. New York
Source: Metro