International tourism, number of arrivals - Travel & tourism - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators

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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.

Rank	Country	Value
International tourism, number of arrivals - Travel & tourism - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	High income	546,527,721
2	High income: OECD	441,888,345
3	Low & middle income	375,532,248
4	Middle income	345,869,364
5	Euro area	290,385,517
6	Upper middle income	179,371,447
7	Lower middle income	166,594,458
8	Europe & Central Asia	123,197,884
9	East Asia & Pacific	109,209,083
10	High income: nonOECD	105,640,525
11	France	78,449,000
12	Latin America & Caribbean	60,922,083
13	United States	57,938,000
14	Spain	57,316,000
15	China	53,049,000
16	Middle East & North Africa	42,819,756
17	Italy	42,734,000
18	United Kingdom	30,142,000
19	Ukraine	25,449,000
20	Turkey	24,994,000
21	Germany	24,884,000
22	Russia	23,676,000
23	Mexico	22,637,000
24	Malaysia	22,052,000
25	Austria	21,935,000
26	Hong Kong	17,319,000
27	Canada	17,142,000
28	Greece	15,939,000
29	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	15,559,774
30	Saudi Arabia	14,757,000
31	Thailand	14,536,000
32	Poland	12,960,000
33	Least developed countries: UN classification	12,794,814
34	Egypt	12,296,000
35	Macau	10,605,000
36	Netherlands	10,104,000
37	South Africa	9,592,000
38	Croatia	9,415,000
39	Romania	8,862,000
40	Hungary	8,814,000
41	Switzerland	8,608,000
42	South Asia	8,472,102
43	Japan	8,351,000
44	Ireland	8,026,000
45	Morocco	7,879,000
46	Singapore	7,778,000
47	Belgium	7,165,000
48	Tunisia	7,049,000
49	South Korea	6,891,000
50	North Korea	6,891,000
51	Czech Republic	6,649,000
52	Indonesia	6,234,000
53	Bulgaria	5,780,000
54	Australia	5,586,000
55	Syria	5,430,000
56	India	5,367,000
57	Brazil	5,050,000
58	Argentina	4,665,000
59	Denmark	4,503,000
60	Norway	4,440,000
61	Vietnam	4,254,000
62	Dominican Republic	3,980,000
63	Puerto Rico	3,894,000
64	Jordan	3,729,000
65	Finland	3,583,000
66	Kazakhstan	3,447,000
67	Philippines	3,139,000
68	Chile	2,699,000
69	Albania	2,675,000
70	Israel	2,572,000
71	Kyrgyzstan	2,435,000
72	New Zealand	2,411,000
73	Cyprus	2,404,000
74	Cuba	2,316,000
75	Costa Rica	2,089,000
76	Andorra	2,059,000
77	Peru	2,058,000
78	Iran	2,034,000
79	Cambodia	2,001,000
80	Estonia	1,970,000
81	Uruguay	1,938,000
82	Algeria	1,772,000
83	Slovenia	1,771,000
84	Slovakia	1,767,000
85	Jamaica	1,767,000
86	Guatemala	1,715,000
87	Latvia	1,684,000
88	Lithuania	1,611,000
89	Botswana	1,500,000
90	Bahamas	1,463,000
91	Azerbaijan	1,409,000
92	Qatar	1,405,000
93	El Salvador	1,385,000
94	Lebanon	1,333,000
95	Laos	1,295,000
96	Panama	1,293,000
97	Malta	1,291,000
98	Georgia	1,290,000
99	Oman	1,273,000
100	Colombia	1,222,000
101	Guam	1,140,000
102	Iceland	1,102,000
103	Uzbekistan	1,069,000
104	Montenegro	1,031,000
105	Ecuador	1,005,000
106	Netherlands Antilles	982,000
107	Rwanda	981,000
108	Mauritius	930,000
109	Honduras	899,000
110	Luxembourg	879,000
111	Nicaragua	858,000
112	Uganda	844,000
113	Aruba	827,000
114	Pakistan	823,000
115	Zambia	812,000
116	Swaziland	754,000
117	Tanzania	750,000
118	Venezuela	745,000
119	Malawi	742,000
120	Maldives	683,000
121	Serbia	646,000
122	Bolivia	594,000
123	Fiji	585,000
124	Barbados	568,000
125	Armenia	558,000
126	Nepal	500,000
127	Bangladesh	467,000
128	Mongolia	446,000
129	Sri Lanka	438,000
130	Trinidad and Tobago	433,000
131	Paraguay	428,000
132	Yemen	404,000
133	Northern Mariana Islands	388,000
134	West Bank and Gaza	387,000
135	Madagascar	375,000
136	Ethiopia	330,000
137	Monaco	324,000
138	Bosnia and Herzegovina	322,000
139	Haiti	304,000
140	Cayman Islands	303,000
141	St. Lucia	296,000
142	Angola	294,000
143	Lesotho	285,000
144	Cape Verde	285,000
145	Antigua and Barbuda	266,000
146	Bermuda	264,000
147	Macedonia	255,000
148	Belize	245,000
149	Burkina Faso	226,000
150	Brunei Darussalam	226,000
151	French Polynesia	196,000
152	Burma	193,000
153	Mali	190,000
154	Seychelles	159,000
155	Gambia	147,000
156	Samoa	122,000
157	St. Kitts and Nevis	121,000
158	Papua New Guinea	114,000
159	New Caledonia	104,000
160	Belarus	91,000
161	Vanuatu	91,000
162	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	84,000
163	Palau	83,000
164	Togo	74,000
165	Liechtenstein	58,000
166	Sierra Leone	36,000
167	Bhutan	28,000
168	Micronesia	26,000
169	Moldova	7,000
170	Marshall Islands	6,000
171	Kiribati	3,900

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