- France – 77 million
- United States – 61 million
- China – 56 million
- Spain – 53 million
- Italy – 43 million
- United Kingdom – 28 million
- Turkey – 27 million
- Germany – 27 million
- Malaysia – 25 million
- Mexico – 22 million
Interesting to note that both France and Spain receive more visitors than their entire population:
- France – population 65 million – with 77 million annual visitors
- Spain – population 46 million – with 53 million visitors.
That’s quite a tourism business for them.
Not to worry as the world seems ready to travel more than ever. Sometime this year we will set a record with 1 billion international tourists, and the graph below shows that at least half of them are heading to Europe!
The numbers for the rankings come from 2010 data.