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World Tourism Rankings

The World Tourism Organization compiles the World Tourism Rankings.

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1 Number of foreign tourists in 2002/2003

Rank	Nation	Millions of tourists in 2002	Millions of tourists in 2003	Change 01-02	Change 02-03
1st	France	77	75	+2.4%	-2.6%
2nd	Spain	52.3	52.5	+4.5%	+0.3%
3rd	United States	41.9	40.4	-6.7%	-3.6%
4th	Italy	39.8	39.6	+0.6%	-0.5%
5th	China	36.8	33.0	+11%	-10.3%
6th	United Kingdom	24.2	24.8	+5.9%	+2.6%
7th	Austria	18.6	19.1	+2.4%	+2.6%
8th	Mexico	19.7	18.7	+4.6%	-4.9%
9th	Germany	18.0	18.4	+0.6%	+0.4%
10th	Canada	20.1	17.5	+1.9%	-12.7%

	International Tourist Arrivals		International Tourism Receipts
Major destination	number in thousands	percentage share	number in US$ million	percentage share
Europe	399,759	100	240,490	100
Austria	18,611	4.7	11,237	4.7
Belgium	6,724	1.7	6,892	2.9
Croatia	6,944	1.7	3,811	1.6
France	77,012	19.3	32,329	13.4
Germany	17,969	4.5	19,158	8.0
Greece	14,180	3.5	9,741	4.1
Hungary	15,870	4.0	3,273	1.4
Ireland	6,476	1.6	3,089	1.3
Italy	39,799	10.0	26,915	11.2
Netherlands	9,595	2.4	7,706	3.2
Poland	13,980	3.5	4,500	1.9
Portugal	11,666	2.9	5,919	2.5
Russian Federation	7,943	2.0	4,188	1.7
Spain	51,748	12.9	33,609	14.0
Switzerland	10,000	2.5	7,628	3.2
Turkey	12,782	3.2	9,010	3.7
Ukraine	6,326	1.6	2,992	1.2
United Kingdom	24,180	6.0	17,591	7.3

03-10-2013 05:06:04
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