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Economy Statistics > Tourist arrivals (1998) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
# 1     France: 70,109,000   1998 Time series
# 2     United States: 46,377,000   1998 Time series
# 3     Spain: 41,892,000   1998 Time series
# 4     Italy: 34,933,000   1998 Time series
# 5     China: 25,073,000   1998 Time series
# 6     United Kingdom: 23,710,000   1998 Time series
# 7     Mexico: 19,392,000   1998 Time series
# 8     Canada: 18,870,000   1998 Time series
# 9     Poland: 18,780,000   1998 Time series
# 10     Austria: 17,352,000   1998 Time series
# 11     Germany: 16,511,000   1998 Time series
# 12     Russia: 16,188,000   1998 Time series
# 13     Portugal: 11,295,000   1998 Time series
# 14     Greece: 10,916,000   1998 Time series
# 15     Netherlands: 9,312,000   1998 Time series
# 16     Turkey: 8,960,000   1998 Time series
# 17     Thailand: 7,843,000   1998 Time series
# 18     Switzerland: 7,185,000   1998 Time series
# 19     Ukraine: 6,208,000   1998 Time series
# 20     Belgium: 6,179,000   1998 Time series
# 21     Ireland: 6,064,000   1998 Time series
# 22     South Africa: 5,732,000   1998 Time series
# 23     Malaysia: 5,551,000   1998 Time series
# 24     Czech Republic: 5,482,000   1998 Time series
# 25     Singapore: 5,122,000   1998 Time series
# 26     Romania: 4,831,000   1998 Time series
# 27     Brazil: 4,818,000   1998 Time series
# 28     Tunisia: 4,718,000   1998 Time series
# 29     Indonesia: 4,606,000   1998 Time series
# 30     Croatia: 4,499,000   1998 Time series
# 31     Australia: 4,167,000   1998 Time series
# 32     Japan: 4,106,000   1998 Time series
# 33     Puerto Rico: 3,396,000   1998 Time series
# 34     Norway: 3,256,000   1998 Time series
# 35     Morocco: 3,095,000   1998 Time series
# 36     Argentina: 3,012,000   1998 Time series
# 37     United Arab Emirates: 2,991,000   1998 Time series
# 38     Bulgaria: 2,667,000   1998 Time series
# 39     Finland: 2,644,000   1998 Time series
# 40     Sweden: 2,573,000   1998 Time series
# 41     India: 2,359,000   1998 Time series
# 42     Dominican Republic: 2,309,000   1998 Time series
# 43     Cyprus: 2,223,000   1998 Time series
# 44     Uruguay: 2,163,000   1998 Time series
# 45     Philippines: 2,149,000   1998 Time series
# 46     Zimbabwe: 2,090,000   1998 Time series
# 47     Denmark: 2,073,000   1998 Time series
# 48     Israel: 1,942,000   1998 Time series
# 49     Jordan: 1,772,000   1998 Time series
# 50     Chile: 1,759,000   1998 Time series
# 51     Bahrain: 1,640,000   1998 Time series
# 52     Bahamas, The: 1,528,000   1998 Time series
# 53     Vietnam: 1,520,000   1998 Time series
# 54     New Zealand: 1,475,000   1998 Time series
# 55     Lithuania: 1,416,000   1998 Time series
# 56     Cuba: 1,390,000   1998 Time series
# 57     Syria: 1,267,000   1998 Time series
# 58     Jamaica: 1,225,000   1998 Time series
# 59     Malta: 1,182,000   1998 Time series
# 60     Guam: 1,137,000   1998 Time series
# 61     Slovenia: 977,000   1998 Time series
# 62     Costa Rica: 943,000   1998 Time series
# 63     Slovakia: 896,000   1998 Time series
# 64     Estonia: 825,000   1998 Time series
# 65     Uzbekistan: 811,000   1998 Time series
# 66     Kenya: 792,000   1998 Time series
# 67     Luxembourg: 789,000   1998 Time series
# 68     Botswana: 750,000   1998 Time series
# 69     Netherlands Antilles: 739,000   1998 Time series
# 70     Nigeria: 739,000   1998 Time series
# 71     Peru: 726,000   1998 Time series
# 72     Venezuela: 685,000   1998 Time series
# 73     Algeria: 678,000   1998 Time series
# 74     Colombia: 674,000   1998 Time series
# 75     Aruba: 647,000   1998 Time series
# 76     Guatemala: 636,000   1998 Time series
# 77     Lebanon: 631,000   1998 Time series
# 78     Namibia: 614,000   1998 Time series
# 79     Latvia: 576,000   1998 Time series
# 80     Iceland: 565,000   1998 Time series
# 81     Mauritius: 558,000   1998 Time series
# 82     El Salvador: 542,000   1998 Time series
# 83     Barbados: 512,000   1998 Time series
# 84     Ecuador: 511,000   1998 Time series
# 85     Northern Mariana Islands: 481,000   1998 Time series
# 86     Nepal: 464,000   1998 Time series
# 87     Tanzania: 450,000   1998 Time series
# 88     Panama: 431,000   1998 Time series
# 89     Pakistan: 429,000   1998 Time series
# 90     Oman: 424,000   1998 Time series
# 91     Virgin Islands: 422,000   1998 Time series
# 92     Nicaragua: 406,000   1998 Time series
# 93     Cayman Islands: 404,000   1998 Time series
# 94     Maldives: 396,000   1998 Time series
# 95     Bolivia: 387,000   1998 Time series
# 96     Sri Lanka: 381,000   1998 Time series
# 97     Fiji: 371,000   1998 Time series
# 98     Bermuda: 370,000   1998 Time series
# 99     Zambia: 362,000   1998 Time series
# 100     Belarus: 355,000   1998 Time series
# 101     Paraguay: 350,000   1998 Time series
# 102     Ghana: 348,000   1998 Time series
# 103     Trinidad and Tobago: 334,000   1998 Time series
# 104     Honduras: 321,000   1998 Time series
# 105     Qatar: 320,000   1998 Time series
# 106     Georgia: 317,000   1998 Time series
# 107     Côte d'Ivoire: 301,000   1998 Time series
# 108     Turkmenistan: 300,000   1998 Time series
# 109     Swaziland: 284,000   1998 Time series
# 110     Monaco: 278,000   1998 Time series
# 111     Saint Lucia: 252,000   1998 Time series
# 112     Cameroon: 247,000   1998 Time series
# 113     Antigua and Barbuda: 234,000   1998 Time series
# 114     Malawi: 220,000   1998 Time series
# 115     Burma: 201,000   1998 Time series
# 116     Laos: 200,000   1998 Time series
# 117     Gabon: 195,000   1998 Time series
# 118     Uganda: 195,000   1998 Time series
# 119     French Polynesia: 189,000   1998 Time series
# 120     Eritrea: 188,000   1998 Time series
# 121     Albania: 184,000   1998 Time series
# 122     Belize: 176,000   1998 Time series
# 123     Bangladesh: 172,000   1998 Time series
# 124     Mongolia: 165,000   1998 Time series
# 125     Burkina Faso: 160,000   1998 Time series
# 126     Macedonia, Republic of: 157,000   1998 Time series
# 127     Benin: 152,000   1998 Time series
# 128     Lesotho: 150,000   1998 Time series
# 129     Bosnia and Herzegovina: 148,000   1998 Time series
# 130     Haiti: 147,000   1998 Time series
# 131     Seychelles: 128,000   1998 Time series
# 132     Madagascar: 121,000   1998 Time series
# 133     Grenada: 116,000   1998 Time series
# 134     Ethiopia: 112,000   1998 Time series
# 135     Turks and Caicos Islands: 111,000   1998 Time series
# 136     New Caledonia: 104,000   1998 Time series
# 137     Saint Kitts and Nevis: 93,000   1998 Time series
# 138     Gambia, The: 91,000   1998 Time series
# 139     Mali: 83,000   1998 Time series
# 140     Samoa: 78,000   1998 Time series
# 141     Kuwait: 77,000   1998 Time series
# 142     Togo: 69,000   1998 Time series
# 143     Papua New Guinea: 67,000   1998 Time series
# 144     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 67,000   1998 Time series
# 145     Guyana: 66,000   1998 Time series
# 146     Dominica: 66,000   1998 Time series
# 147     Palau: 64,000   1998 Time series
# 148     Liechtenstein: 59,000   1998 Time series
# 149     Kyrgyzstan: 59,000   1998 Time series
# 150     Suriname: 55,000   1998 Time series
# 151     Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 53,000   1998 Time series
# 152     Cape Verde: 52,000   1998 Time series
# 153     Vanuatu: 52,000   1998 Time series
# 154     Angola: 52,000   1998 Time series
# 155     Iraq: 45,000   1998 Time series
# 156     Chad: 41,000   1998 Time series
# 157     Niger: 41,000   1998 Time series
# 158     Sudan: 38,000   1998 Time series
# 159     San Marino: 36,000   1998 Time series
# 160     American Samoa: 36,000   1998 Time series
# 161     Libya: 32,000   1998 Time series
# 162     Armenia: 32,000   1998 Time series
# 163     Comoros: 27,000   1998 Time series
# 164     Tonga: 27,000   1998 Time series
# 165     Guinea: 23,000   1998 Time series
# 166     Djibouti: 21,000   1998 Time series
# 167     Congo, Republic of the: 20,000   1998 Time series
# 168     Moldova: 19,000   1998 Time series
# 169     Solomon Islands: 16,000   1998 Time series
# 170     Burundi: 15,000   1998 Time series
# 171     Sierra Leone: 13,000   1998 Time series
# 172     Central African Republic: 7,000   1998 Time series
# 173     São Tomé and Príncipe: 6,000   1998 Time series
# 174     Bhutan: 6,000   1998 Time series
# 175     Marshall Islands: 6,000   1998 Time series
# 176     Kiribati: 5,700   1998 Time series
# 177     Tuvalu: 1,000   1998 Time series
Weighted average: 3,189,194.9  

Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union 302,497,926.63   


DEFINITION: International inbound tourists (overnight visitors) are the number of tourists who travel to a country other than that in which they have their usual residence, but outside their usual environment, for a period not exceeding 12 months and whose main purpose in visiting is other than an activity remunerated from within the country visited. When data on number of tourists are not available, the number of visitors, which includes tourists, same-day visitors, cruise passengers, and crew members, is shown instead. Sources and collection methods for arrivals differ across countries. In some cases data are from border statistics (police, immigration, and the like) and supplemented by border surveys. In other cases data are from tourism accommodation establishments. For some countries number of arrivals is limited to arrivals by air and for others to arrivals staying in hotels. Some countries include arrivals of nationals residing abroad while others do not. Caution should thus be used in comparing arrivals across countries. The data on inbound tourists refer to the number of arrivals, not to the number of people traveling. Thus a person who makes several trips to a country during a given period is counted each time as a new arrival."

SOURCE: World Tourism Organisation, Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files.

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Iresh
26th September 2011 		Your stats are really useful. Visit http://www.srilanka.com/ if you are interested know about travel information of Sri Lanka.
Angelo+Lazarus
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Julia
27th June 2011 		Did you forget Uganda "Gifted by Nsature""The pearl of Africa"
NG'ORIARITA
22nd June 2011 		Kindly provide a tourism situational data for small countries who are venturing in tourism for the fast time
EMP
23rd May 2011 		@DUDE!
#26. use ctrl F. IT FINDS THINGS.
Eias
16th May 2011 		Why Egypt is not in the list?
Dude!
12th May 2011 		Where the hell is Switzerland????????????
Chris
12th April 2011 		THIS IS VERY UN HELPFUL
Fred
11th April 2011 		Cambodia has reached 2 million arrivals / year years ago...
Yoliza
9th March 2011 		Whats the matter with you people, we need the year dudes!!!
Di
4th March 2011 		Where is Kazakhstan?
AsiaTourist
13th February 2011 		Japan 4.2 million?? How long ago was that? Japan received 9.44 million tourists in 2010. This ranking needs to be updated. Way too old.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201101160165.html
This ranking needs to be updated
13th February 2011 		Japan 4.2 million? How long ago was that? Japan received 9.44 million tourists in 2010. This list needs to be updated.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201101160165.html
Bhoijaraj
12th January 2011 		I am writing from nepal
I have not seen the rank of nepal in your list. Some articles wrote that the nepal position is 123 on the basis of Economy.
can give me the position of nepal ?

any way it is good effort
Maxine
11th January 2011 		Tourism is one of the main industries in the Cayman Islands but no figures are shown.
The department of tourism in Grnd Cayman has the statistics. please update
Thanks
Alexandre Neves
5th January 2011 		Portugal had more then 5 million tourists in all the recent years,please update your chart.
Prof.+S.+Rashidul+Hasan
29th December 2010 		I dont find the name of Bangladesh in your list. But officially around 400000 tourists com,e to Bangladesh. Please try to get exact data from Bangladesh tourist organization and include in the table.
I am working on tourism development in Bangladesh. Anybody can contact with me if want to work on regional tourism development specially south asin countries.
Prof. S. Rashidul Hasan
29th December 2010 		I dont find the name of Bangladesh in your list. But officially around 400000 tourists com,e to Bangladesh. Please try to get exact data from Bangladesh tourist organization and include in the table.
I am working on tourism development in Bangladesh. Anybody can contact with me if want to work on regional tourism development specially south asian countries. e mail : srhasan75@gmail.com
martin
22nd December 2010 		New Zealand had 2365000 tourist arrivals, about the same as India
Tommygun
1st December 2010 		Australia attracted 5.3 million international visitors YE June 2010 which puts it 21st on the list, though there are clearly others missing so who truly know? The WTO?
DIANA
10th October 2010 		ECUADOR TOURIST ARRIVALS 2009- 813.637. PLEASE UPDATE.
Bhojaraj+Nepal
11th September 2010 		I am Preparing the Deseration on Situation of Tourism in Nepal
A Case study of Lekhnath Municipility?
Can U give some Valuable data relating to South Asia?

Regards

Bhoj raj
Neville
22nd August 2010 		Where is Australia. Do not tell me that they would not keep such statistics.
Plong Thoeun
27th July 2010 		Tourist arrival to Cambodia in 2009 was 2,161,577. please kindly update.
rudra
17th July 2010 		Amazing!! you don't have information about Nepal ?
Please ........... in another update???
Theo'...
30th June 2010 		Where is Papua New Guinea? Why is it not on the list??

The obvious Pacific country I can see there is Fiji.

Hope to see PNG on the list as well.

Thank you.
Marie, Bali
28th March 2010 		Malaysia is stated in official studies over 23 million arrovals in 2009, when it is 6 million in this page ...
hio
13th March 2010 		This hing is just misleading I went to the official tourism site. It is more updated and it has allcountries. This one is the worst I've ever seen
Mitch
4th March 2010 		I'm looking for Tourism as a percentage of GDP. Anyone?
Hovhannes
11th January 2010 		Dears, Where is Armenia???
KWIZERA
17th December 2009 		THESE STATS ARE MISLEADING, THOSE CONCERNED SHOULD STOP BEING LAZY AND LOOK FOR GENUINE ONES
Sam
13th December 2009 		Were is Zambia??????
AKHONA BALENI
19th May 2009 		WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TOURISMS GRAPHS
Carlos Mendoza (Lima - Peru)
10th March 2009 		Dear Nation Master,
Very interesting your statistic chart about Tourist Arrivals in the world, but could you tell me from what year
it is ?
And why aren't important countries such as Netherlands and
Switzerland ?
Is it possible to display the latest data... year 2008 ?

Thank you beforehand.
carlosenmendoza@hotmail.com
R.P.
11th February 2006 		WHERE IS THE BAHAMAS!!!???? Are we non-existant?! Over 5 million tourists visited that country last year and we 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
28th October 2005 		Why is the latest info belongs to 1997? We are at the end of 2005.
Ian Graham
Staff Editor
6th March 2005 		Tourism continues expanding year-to-year, according to World Tourist Organization numbers. In 2002, international tourist arrivals topped 700 million for the first time, and increased by about 16 million from 2001.

Worldwide earnings from international tourism in 2002 were US$474 billion, or US$1.3 billion per day. That’s US$675 per tourist.

The United States earned US$67 billion followed by Spain, France and Italy, which 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 will reach 1.56 billion by 2020, and that the top three destination regions will be Europe (717 million), East Asia and the Pacific (397 million) and the Americas (282 million).

Nico Calando
16th February 2005 		please update, 1997 was ages ago.
gen
1st December 2004 		i find these stats very interesting
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