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top spenders

In 2002, 5 nations accounted for over half of all spending on tourism:
  • 14 out of 25 top world tourism spenders are from Europe, representing a joint share of almost 44% of the total expenditure.


  • Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan have a combined share of over 1/4 of the world's tourism expenditure.
World’s tourism top spenders 2002
rank expenditure (US$ billion)world share
USA58.012.2
Germany53.211.2
UK40.48.5
Japan26.75.6
France19.54.1
World474 


Expenditure per capita (US$)
biggest
of biggest*		exp. per capita smallest
of biggest*		 exp. per capita
Honk Kong1700Russia83
Norway1285Mexico59
Denmark1277China12
Austria1149  
Belgium1016World76



* Among the 25 top spenders.
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