France, the favourite destination

areppim scatter chart and statistics of the world top 20 tourism destinations and their corresponding tourism receipts. France keeps its irresistible appeal as a tourist destination and places itself at the top with a hefty 79.5 million tourist arrivals (ITA - international tourist arrivals) in 2011. At such a high ITA level — almost 3.5 times the median of the other 20 top destinations. The other top 5 destinations are, in descending order, the United States, China, Spain, Italy and Turkey. In terms of receipts generated by international tourists (ITR - international tourism receipts), the hierarchy is not really upset, and only suffers some reshuffling. We find at the top 5 places those countries which were also the top destinations, just with a change of chairs. The United States is now first with a revenue of US$ 116.3 billion, followed by Spain with 59.9 billion, France, China and Italy.

France remains the most appealing tourist destination in 2011, but the US gets the most revenue from tourism (Top tourism destinations 2011).