"Among these high-GDP countries, Spain ranks as the most touristy. On average throughout the year, about 2 percent of the people there are tourists, I estimate. (Obviously the percentage is going to be higher at certain places and times: during high season in Ibiza, for instance.) France is next at 1.7 percent, followed by Canada, the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom. Australia isn’t far behind.
In Japan, however, the tourist percentage is only 0.2 percent. And it’s lower still in some other places: just 0.05 percent in China, 0.04 percent in Brazil, and 0.01 percent in India, meaning that only about 1 in 10,000 people is an international tourist there at any given time. These countries do attract reasonable numbers of tourists — but their native populations are very large, so tourists represent a tiny fraction of the population."
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-...-tourists/
The bulk of the article is not really interesting, to me, just the data.
Funny that Brazil especially has such little tourism overall. For a big country, it goes to show (I guess) that most tourism really is concentrated on a small part of the country.
Thoughts?
In Japan, however, the tourist percentage is only 0.2 percent. And it’s lower still in some other places: just 0.05 percent in China, 0.04 percent in Brazil, and 0.01 percent in India, meaning that only about 1 in 10,000 people is an international tourist there at any given time. These countries do attract reasonable numbers of tourists — but their native populations are very large, so tourists represent a tiny fraction of the population."
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-...-tourists/
The bulk of the article is not really interesting, to me, just the data.
Funny that Brazil especially has such little tourism overall. For a big country, it goes to show (I guess) that most tourism really is concentrated on a small part of the country.
Thoughts?