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Rank Countries Am ount
#1 France: 67,310,000
#2 United States: 47,752,000
#3 Spain: 43,252,000
#4 Italy: 34,087,000
#5 United Kingdom: 25,515,000
#6 China: 23,770,000
#7 Poland: 19,520,000
#8 Mexico: 19,351,000
#9 Canada: 17,636,000
# 10 Hungary: 17,248,000
# 11 Czech Republic: 16,830,000
# 12 Germany: 15,837,000
# 13 Russia: 15,350,000
# 14 Greece: 10,070,000
# 15 Turkey: 9,040,000
# 16 Ukraine: 7,356,000
# 17 Thailand: 7,294,000
# 18 Singapore: 6,531,000
# 19 Malaysia: 6,211,000
# 20 Belgium: 6,037,000
# 21 Ireland: 5,557,000
# 22 South Africa: 5,437,000
# 23 Indonesia: 5,185,000
WHAT'S NEW # 24 Argentina: 4,540,000
Updated crime data! # 25 Tunisia: 4,263,000
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# 27 Croatia: 3,834,000
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# 28 Egypt: 3,657,000
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# 29 Saudi Arabia: 3,594,000
# 30 Morocco: 3,072,000
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# 31 Bulgaria: 2,980,000
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Tourist arrivals" also view ed # 32 Romania: 2 957 000
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Tourist arrivals also view ed # 32 Romania: 2,957,000
these w orld stats:
# 33 Brazil: 2,850,000
Debt > external
# 34 Sweden: 2,388,000
Economic freedom
# 35 India: 2,374,000
Government spending in
research and development # 36 Uruguay: 2,317,000
Social security expenditure as % # 37 Philippines: 2,223,000
of GDP
Dominican
Exports # 38 2,211,000
Republic:
Technology index
# 39 Denmark: 2,158,000
Jew s
Largest city # 40 Cyprus: 2,088,000
Motor vehicles # 41 Israel: 2,010,000
Largest city population # 42 Finland: 1,832,000
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# 43 1,792,000
tourism graphs Emirates:
# 44 Chile: 1,644,000
RECENT UPDATES # 45 Colombia: 1,544,000
Economy > Stock of domestic # 46 Jamaica: 1,192,000
credit
# 47 Cuba: 1,153,000
Crime > Illicit drugs
# 48 Jordan: 1,127,000
Industry > Car production (per $
GDP) # 49 Malta: 1,111,000

More Recent Updates » # 50 Portugal: 1,072,000

# 51 Lithuania: 1,012,000

SUBSCRIBE TO NEWS # 52 Slovenia: 974,000

# 53 Syria: 891,000
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= 54 Slovakia: 814,000

Go » # 56 Costa Rica: 811,000

# 57 Luxembourg: 771,000
# 58 Peru: 747,000
# 59 Iran: 740,000
# 60 Botswana: 734,000
# 61 Estonia: 730,000
# 62 Algeria: 635,000
# 63 Guatemala: 576,000
# 64 Lebanon: 558,000
# 65 Mauritius: 536,000
# 66 San Marino: 532,000
# 67 Ecuador: 529,000
# 68 Namibia: 502,000

# 69 Barbados: 472,000
# 70 Qatar: 435,000
# 71 Eritrea: 410,000
# 72 Panama: 402,000
# 73 Paraguay: 395,000
# 74 El Salvador: 387,000
= 75 Oman: 375,000
= 75 Pakistan: 375,000
= 77 Sri Lanka: 366,000
= 77 Maldives: 366,000
# 79 Fiji: 359,000
# 80 Bolivia: 355,000
# 81 Tanzania: 347,000
# 82 Iraq: 346,000
# 83 Ghana: 325,000
Trinidad and
# 84 324,000
Tobago:

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# 85 Swaziland: 322,000
= 86 Georgia: 313,000
= 86 Senegal: 313,000
# 88 Honduras: 303,000
# 89 Cote d'Ivoire: 274,000
# 90 Monaco: 259,000
# 91 Turkmenistan: 257,000
# 92 Belarus: 254,000
# 93 Uzbekistan: 253,000
# 94 Saint Lucia: 248,000
Antigua and
# 95 232,000
Barbuda:
# 96 Uganda: 227,000
# 97 Latvia: 220,000
# 98 Cambodia: 219,000
# 99 Iceland: 202,000
# 100 Malawi: 194,000
# 101 Laos: 193,000
# 102 Burma: 189,000
# 103 Gabon: 167,000
# 104 Haiti: 149,000
# 105 Benin: 148,000
# 106 Belize: 146,000
# 107 Lesotho: 144,000
# 108 Burkina Faso: 138,000
# 109 Cameroon: 133,000
# 110 Seychelles: 130,000
Macedonia, The
# 111 Former Yugoslav 121,000
Republic of:
# 112 Ethiopia: 115,000
# 113 Grenada: 111,000

# 114 Madagascar: 101,000

Bosnia and
# 115 100,000
Herzegovina:
# 116 Guinea: 95,000
# 117 Togo: 92,000
Saint Kitts and
# 118 88,000
Nevis:
# 119 Gambia, The: 85,000
# 120 Mongolia: 82,000
# 121 Guyana: 76,000
# 122 Mali: 75,000
# 123 Palau: 74,000
# 124 Samoa: 68,000
Papua New
# 125 66,000
Guinea:
Saint Vincent
= 126 and the 65,000
Grenadines:
= 126 Dominica: 65,000
# 128 Suriname: 61,000
# 129 Liechtenstein: 57,000
# 130 Libya: 50,000
# 131 Vanuatu: 49,000
# 132 Sierra Leone: 48,000
= 133 Cape Verde: 45,000

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= 133 Angola: 45,000
Congo,
# 135 Democratic 42,000
Republic of the:
# 136 Sudan: 30,000
= 137 Comoros: 26,000
= 137 Tonga: 26,000
# 139 Moldova: 21,000
# 140 Djibouti: 20,000
# 141 Albania: 19,000
Central African
# 142 17,000
Republic:
# 143 Solomon Islands: 16,000
# 144 Chad: 12,000
Micronesia,
= 145 Federated States 11,000
of:
= 145 Burundi: 11,000
# 147 Somalia: 10,000
# 148 Marshall Islands: 6,000
# 149 Bhutan: 5,000
# 150 Afghanistan: 4,000
Sao Tome and
# 151 2,000
Principe:
# 152 Rwanda: 1,000
Total: 525,062,000
Weighted
3,454,355.3
average:

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DEFINITION: Tourist (international): Any person w ho travels to a country other than that in w hich s/he has his/her
usual residence but outside his/her usual environment for a period not exceeding 12 months and w hose main
purpose of visit is other than the exercise of an activity remunerated from w ith the country visited, and w ho stay at
least one night in a collective or private accommodation in the country visited. (United Nations and World Tourism
Organization, 1994)

SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook

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Chris THIS IS VERY UN HELPFUL

12th April 2011

Fred Cambodia has reached 2 million arrivals / year years ago...

12th April 2011

Yoliza Whats the matter w ith you people, w e need the year dudes!!!
9th March 2011

Di Where is Kazakhstan?
4th March 2011

AsiaTourist Japan 4.2 million?? How long ago w as that? Japan received 9.44 million tourists in 2010. This ranking needs to
14th February 2011 be updated. Way too old.
http://w w w .asahi.com/english/TKY201101160165.html

This ranking needs to be updated Japan 4.2 million? How long ago w as that? Japan received 9.44 million tourists in 2010. This list needs to be
14th February 2011 updated.
http://w w w .asahi.com/english/TKY201101160165.html

Bhoijaraj I am w riting from nepal

13th January 2011 I have not seen the rank of nepal in your list. Some articles w rote that the nepal position is 123 on the basis of
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can give me the position of nepal ?

any w ay it is good effort

Maxine Tourism is one of the main industries in the Cayman Islands but no figures are show n.
12th January 2011 The department of tourism in Grnd Cayman has the statistics. please update
Thanks

Alexandre Neves Portugal had more then 5 million tourists in all the recent years,please update your chart.
6th January 2011

Prof.+S.+Rashidul+Hasan I dont find the name of Bangladesh in your list. But officially around 400000 tourists com,e to Bangladesh.
30th December 2010 Please try to get exact data from Bangladesh tourist organization and include in the table.
I am w orking on tourism development in Bangladesh. Anybody can contact w ith me if w ant to w ork on
regional tourism development specially south asin countries.

Prof. S. Rashidul Hasan I dont find the name of Bangladesh in your list. But officially around 400000 tourists com,e to Bangladesh.
30th December 2010 Please try to get exact data from Bangladesh tourist organization and include in the table.
I am w orking on tourism development in Bangladesh. Anybody can contact w ith me if w ant to w ork on
regional tourism development specially south asian countries. e mail : srhasan75@gmail.com

m artin New Zealand had 2365000 tourist arrivals, about the same as India
23rd December 2010

Tom m ygun Australia attracted 5.3 million international visitors YE June 2010 w hich puts it 21st on the list, though there are
2nd December 2010 clearly others missing so w ho truly know ? The WTO?

Murad Dude,
22nd November 2010 you missed the Maldives. w ill be above Peru and Iran.

http://w w w .maldivesonlineguide.com/goodies/statistics/

DIANA ECUADOR TOURIST ARRIVALS 2009- 813.637. PLEASE UPDATE.

10th October 2010

Bhojaraj+Nepal I am Preparing the Deseration on Situation of Tourism in Nepal

12th September 2010 A Case study of Lekhnath Municipility?
Can U give some Valuable data relating to South Asia?

Regards

Bhoj raj

Bhojaraj Nepal Where is the rank of Nepal? some articles w rote 123 position of w orld ? Please let me know if possible?
26th August 2010

Neville Where is Australia. Do not tell me that they w ould not keep such statistics.
23rd August 2010

Plong Thoeun Tourist arrival to Cambodia in 2009 w as 2,161,577. please kindly update.
28th July 2010

rudra Amazing!! you don't have information about Nepal ?

18th July 2010 Please ........... in another update???

Theo'... Where is Papua New Guinea? Why is it not on the list??

30th June 2010
The obvious Pacific country I can see there is Fiji.

Hope to see PNG on the list as w ell.

Thank you.

Marie, Bali Malaysia is stated in official studies over 23 million arrovals in 2009, w hen it is 6 million in this page ...
29th March 2010

hio This hing is just misleading I w ent to the official tourism site. It is more updated and it has allcountries. This one
14th March 2010 is the w orst I've ever seen

Mitch I'm looking for Tourism as a percentage of GDP. Anyone?

4th March 2010

Hovhannes Dears, Where is Armenia???

12th January 2010

KWIZERA THESE STATS ARE MISLEADING, THOSE CONCERNED SHOULD STOP BEING LAZY AND LOOK FOR GENUINE
18th December 2009 ONES

Sam Were is Zambia??????

14th December 2009

AKHONA BALENI WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TOURISMS GRAPHS

20th May 2009

( ) D N i M
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Carlos Mendoza (Lim a - Peru) Dear Nation Master,
11th March 2009 Very interesting your statistic chart about Tourist Arrivals in the w orld, but could you tell me from w hat year
it is ?
And w hy aren't important countries such as Netherlands and
Sw itzerland ?
Is it possible to display the latest data... year 2008 ?

Thank you beforehand.

carlosenmendoza@hotmail.com
R.P. WHERE IS THE BAHAMAS!!!???? Are w e non-existant?! Over 5 million tourists visited that country last year
12th February 2006 and w e steadily attrack over 4 million tourists every year. I hope tat you are actively refreshing this list as it is
evident by most that the list is not acurate

Hakan Why is the latest info belongs to 1997? We are at the end of 2005.
28th October 2005

Ian Graham Tourism continues expanding year-to-year, according to World Tourist Organization numbers. In 2002,
Staff Editor international tourist arrivals topped 700 million for the first time, and increased by about 16 million from 2001.
7th March 2005 Worldw ide earnings from international tourism in 2002 w ere US$474 billion, or US$1.3 billion per day. That’s
US$675 per tourist.
The United States earned US$67 billion follow ed by Spain, France and Italy, w hich earned from US$27 billion
to US$34 billion.
Per-tourist spending is almost US$1,000 in the Americas, US$720 in Asia-Pacific, US$600 in Europe, and
US$470 in the Middle East.
The top 10 spenders on tourism are the U.S., Germany, U.K., Japan, France, Italy, China, Netherlands, Hong
Kong and the Russian Federation.
The World Tourist Organization estimates international tourist arrivals w ill reach 1.56 billion by 2020, and that
the top three destination regions w ill be Europe (717 million), East Asia and the Pacific (397 million) and the
Americas (282 million).

Nico Calando please update, 1997 w as ages ago.

16th February 2005

gen i find these stats very interesting

2nd December 2004

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