The changing face of tourism

Short. Focused. Explicit. Limpid. Crystal clear. Very good recipe. /JR

Isn't it simply because the Chinese have 3x as many people. Some gotta want to travel.

Stronger Dollar is bad argument. Euro is stronger yet there are more tourists in Europe

I'm gonna go to Paris and the South of France 😍😍😍🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

1:55 - WTF?!!

Great news both for the Mexican tourism sector and for Mexican travellers.¡Viva México! :D

Can 'The Economist' please tell us what was meant by the introductory kind of message at the 'last' of the video?!!

This is true. There's Chinese everywhere

@1:26: I've read in multiple places that Bangladesh is actually the least visited country in the world, to the extent that even Saharan countries like Mali and Burkina Faso get more tourists.

~50% of Americans can't even afford to take vacation days. Many use their vacation days (if they get any) for sick leave when they get ill. Out of the ~50% that take vacation days, 40% can't afford vacation outside U.S.A, excluding Canada or Mexico. Then it's only about 10% Americans that can afford to go to EU, Asia, South America, etc... There are millions of Americans that haven't even seen the oceans or have traveled out of their states, one of the downside of working two/three minimum wage jobs. Then the rich gets another tax break.

That last bit there... 🤔

As a person who has a bachelor in tourism management, the idea of the strong currency being less appealing to tourists have always been a debate. For example, Canada currently have wayyyy weaker currency than compare to US; yet, when people (American tourists) were surveyed whether they would want to visit Canada in their life time, they would always put visit Canada in their bucket list rather than actually taking the advantage of their weak currency (so, in our lecture, we concluded it was more of values that drive people to travel. Weaker currency of a destination is a plus, but not a significant decision factor.) . Destination Canada data reveals while US market is still the major market driver of the Canadian tourism industry, the number of visitation did not drastically change compare to other countries visitation like China, India and UK.

Tuvalu IS NOT the least visited country in the world. I just got back from Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic. The Central African Republic got less than 250 tourists last year and Equatorial Guinea got less than 150. South Sudan and Yemen probably got even fewer than those two.

The most interesting places I'd love to visit are not encouraged for us to visit!!😏

very hard to get a visa to US and may not be worth it

I have visited most of the countries in the world and according to me India is the best country as people are very nice and kind and a must visit country as she has one of the ancient culture and huge cultural diversity and very beautiful and diverse landscape. People can learn a lot about life by visiting India.

went to etretat france and counted 53 asians. then i got bored of counting.

Look at the spendings and compare population to the amount of money spent on holidays ^^ The europeans are still the biggest spending tourists in the world despite they aren't the most tourists ..quiet interesting, especially if you compare with the US

For Europeans, there's a lot of great things to see in Europe, so fewer middle class citizens spend hundreds of dollars for plane tickets to America. For less than the cost of a plane ticket to the US and back, they can have a full city break in other EU countries

France also offers a certain je ne sais quoi ; they are very tolerant of camping and camper-vans. Laissez faire (let things take their own course) is the French way.