World Tourism rankings

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The World Tourism rankings are compiled by the United Nations World Tourism Organization as share of their World Tourism Barometer e-newsletter, which is released as much as six events per year. Within the e-newsletter, destinations are ranked by the assortment of world visitor arrivals, by the income generated by inbound tourism, and by the expenditure of outbound vacationers.

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Most visited destinations by world tourist arrivals

In 2023 there were 1.3 billion world vacationers, with a development of 33.4% compared with 2022 and development of 112.2% compared with 2021.^[[1] The pinnacle 10 world tourism destinations in 2023 were:^[[2]^[[3]


Irascible	Destination	Global tourist arrivals (2023)^[[4]	Global tourist arrivals (2022)^[[3]	Alternate (2022 to 2023) (%)	Alternate (2021 to 2022) (%)
1	France	100 million	seventy 9.4 million	25.9	64
2	Spain	85.2 million	71.7 million	18.8	130
3	United States	66.5 million	50.9 million	30.6	130
4	Italy	57.2 million	49.8 million	14.8	85
5	Turkey	55.2 million	50.5 million	9.3	69
6	Mexico	42.2 million	38.3 million	10.1	20
7	United Kingdom	37.2 million	30.7 million	21.1	389
8	Germany	34.8 million	28.5 million	22.1	144
9	Greece	32.7 million	27.8 million	17.6	89
10	Austria	30.9 million	26.2 million	17.9	106

Africa

In 2019, there were 69.9 million world tourist arrivals to Africa (with the exception of for Egypt and Libya), an amplify of 2.4% from 2018.^[[5] Basically based on the World Economic discussion board‘s Lumber & Tourism Pattern represent in 2024, Morocco is the nation most relying on lumber and tourism amongst all countries in MENA predicament.^[[6] South Africa takes the lead in the Tourism and Pattern rating in all of Africa,^[[6] the tip ten African destinations by quality of tourism were:

Irascible Internationally^[[6]	Irascible in Africa	Destination	Rating ^[[7]	Alternate of Irascible from 2019 to 2024^[[6]
61	3	Egypt	3.96	+5
82	7	Morocco	3.64	-12
55	1	South Africa	3.ninety 9	+7
83	8	Tunisia	3.60	+2
98	10	Algeria	3.42	+2
110	14	Zimbabwe	3.19	0
114	15	Ivory Cruise	3.13	+2
77	5	Kenya	3.68	-1
75	4	Botswana	3.71	+6
57	2	Mauritius	3.98	-4
81	6	Tanzania	3.65	+7
93	9	Rwanda	3.45	+6
104	11	Zambia	3.45	-2
106	12	Ghana	3.28	+1
107	13	Senegal	3.24	+2

The next table compiles estimated assortment of vacationers for every and every nation in Africa in 2018 and 2019, the tip ten African destinations were :

Irascible	Destination	Lumber & Tourism Pattern Index rating 2024 ^[[7]	Global tourist arrivals (2019)^[[5]	Global tourist arrivals (2018)^[[5]	Alternate (2018 to 2019) (%)	Alternate (2017 to 2018) (%)
1	Egypt	61	13.0 million	11.3 million	14.8	36.8
2	Morocco	82	12.9 million	12.3 million	5.2	8.3
3	South Africa	55	10.2 million	10.5 million	2.3	1.8
4	Tunisia	83	9.4 million	8.3 million	13.6	17.7
5	Algeria	98	2.4 million	2.7 million	10.8	8.4
6	Zimbabwe	110	2.3 million	2.6 million	10.8	5.9
7	Mozambique	–	2.0 million	2.7 million	26.4	89.6
8	Ivory Cruise	114	–	2.0 million	–	9.2
9	Kenya	77	–	1.9 million	–	15.4
10	Botswana	75	–	1.7 million	–	2.0
Expose: Egypt and Libya are categorized below “Center East” in the UNWTO.^[[8]

Americas

In 2022, there were 156.2 million world tourist arrivals to the Americas, an amplify of 90.9%.^[[5] In 2022, the tip ten destinations were:

Irascible	Destination	Global tourist arrivals (2022)^[[5]	Global tourist arrivals (2021)^[[5]	Alternate (2021 to 2022) (%)	Alternate (2020 to 2021) (%)
1	United States	50.8 million	22.2 million	128.8	15.6
2	Mexico	38.3 million	31.8 million	20.4	31.4
3	Canada	12.8 million	3.0 million	326.6	3.4
4	Dominican Republic	6.9 million	4.9 million	40.8	104.1
5	Colombia	4.5 million	2.1 million	114.2	74.9
6	Argentina	3.8 million	0.3 million	1196.6	85.6
7	Brazil	3.6 million	0.7 million	386.5	65.2
8	Jamaica	2.4 million	1.4 million	71.4	66.3
9	Uruguay	2.4 million	0.2 million	962.4	74.9
10	Peru	2.0 million	0.4 million	452.2	20.1

Asia and the Pacific

In 2019, there were 360.7 million world tourist arrivals to Asia-Pacific, an amplify of 4.1% over 2018.^[[5] In 2019, the tip ten destinations were:

Irascible	Destination	Global tourist arrivals (2023)^[[9]	Global tourist arrivals (2019)^[[5]	Global tourist arrivals (2018)^[[5]	Alternate (2018 to 2019) (%)	Alternate (2017 to 2018) (%)
1	China	35.3 million^[[10]	65.7 million	62.9 million	4.5	3.6
2	Thailand	28.15 million	39.8 million	38.2 million	4.3	7.3
3	Japan	25.07 million	32.2 million	31.2 million	3.2	8.7
4	Malaysia		26.1 million	25.8 million	1.0	0.4
5	Hong Kong		23.8 million	29.3 million	18.8	4.9
6	Macau		18.6 million	18.5 million	0.8	7.2
7	Vietnam		18.0 million	15.5 million	16.2	19.9
8	India		17.9 million	17.4 million	2.8	12.1
9	South Korea		17.5 million	15.3 million	14.0	15.1
10	Indonesia		15.5 million	13.4 million	15.4	3.5

Europe

In 2022, there were 594.5 million world tourist arrivals to Europe, an amplify of 95% over 2021.^[[5] Top 10 destinations of the final four years were:

Irascible	Destination	Global tourist arrivals (2022)^[[3]	Global tourist arrivals (2021)^[[3]	Global tourist arrivals (2020)^[[5]	Global tourist arrivals (2019)^[[5]	Alternate (2021 to 2022) (%)	Alternate (2020 to 2021) (%)
1	France	―	forty eight.4 million	41.7 million	90.9 million	—	16.1
2	Spain	71.7 million	31.2 million	18.9 million	83.5 million	130	64.7
3	Turkey	50.5 million	29.9 million	15.9 million	51.2 million	69	88.3
4	Italy	49.8 million	26.9 million	25.2 million	64.5 million	85	6.7
5	United Kingdom	―	6.3 million	10.7 million	39.4 million	―	41.3
6	Germany	28.5 million	11.7 million	12.4 million	39.6 million	144	6.1
7	Greece	27.8 million	14.7 million	7.4 million	31.3 million	89	ninety 9.4
8	Austria	26.2 million	12.7 million	15.1 million	31.9 million	106	15.7
9	Portugal	―	9.6 million	6.5 million	24.5 million	―	forty eight.4
10	Netherlands	15.9 million	6.2 million	7.3 million	20.1 million	155	14.0

West Asia

In 2019, there were 61.4 million world tourist arrivals to West Asia (with the exception of for Iran and Israel), an amplify of 2.1% over 2018. In 2019, the tip ten destinations were:

Irascible	Destination	Global tourist arrivals (2023)^[[9]	Global tourist arrivals (2019)^[[5]	Global tourist arrivals (2018)^[[5]	Alternate (2018 to 2019) (%)	Alternate (2017 to 2018) (%)
1	Saudi Arabia	27 million	17.5 million	15.5 million	13.0	3.7
2	United Arab Emirates		16.7 million	15.9 million	5.1	0.8
3	Egypt		13.0 million	11.3 million	14.8	36.8
4	Iran		9.1 million	7.3 million	24.4	49.9
5	Israel		4.6 million	4.1 million	10.5	14.1
6	Jordan		4.5 million	4.2 million	8.1	8.0
7	Bahrain		3.8 million	4.4 million	11.8	0.2
8	Oman		2.5 million	2.3 million	8.6	0.6
9	Qatar		2.1 million	1.8 million	17.4	19.4
10	Lebanon		1.9 million	2.0 million	1.4	5.8
Expose: Iran is categorized as share of “South Asia” in the UNWTO.^[[8] Israel is categorized as share of “Southern/Medit.Europe” in the UNWTO.^[[8]

Global tourism receipts

Global tourism receipts are the earnings a nation makes from foreign company’ spending on items and services all via their discontinuance, equivalent to expenditures accommodation, meals and drink, and attempting out. Global tourism receipts reached USD 1 trillion in 2022, rising 50% in staunch phrases compared with 2021, pushed by the vital rebound in world lumber.^[[5] The World Tourism Organization reports the next destinations as the tip ten tourism earners for the year 2022, with the United States by far the tip earner.

Irascible	Space	Global tourism receipts (US$ billion) (2023)^[[4]	Global tourism receipts (US$ billion) (2022)^[[3]	Alternate (native forex) (2022 to 2023) (%)
1	United States	175.9	135.2	30.1%
2	Spain	92.0	72.9	26.2%
3	United Kingdom	73.9	68.2	8.3%
4	France	68.6	59.7	14.9%
5	Italy	55.9	44.3	26.1%
6	United Arab Emirates	51.9	―	―
7	Turkey	49.5	41.2	21.3%
8	Australia	46.6	―	―
9	Canada	39.2	24.0	63.3%
10	Japan	38.6	―	―