The chart below shows the amount of money in billions of dollars spent on international tourism by people from seven different countries in 2011 and 2012.
The bar chart illustrates the amount of spending on international tourism by seven countries in 2001 and 2012. Overall, China held the highest position in 2012 among other countries, while Germany was the first in 2011, spending a high amount of money on tourism. Canada was the country that spent the least amount of funding and remained the lowest in the given chart.
In 2011, Germany and the USA were leading in spending around 80 billion dollars in international tourism, while China was the second among countries, reaching approximately 72 billion. However, the gap between the UK and France was quite similar, spending about 43 and 40 billion dollars, respectively. As for the Asian countries, specifically, Russia was budgeting about 30 billion dollars, with Canada being the lowest in contrast to other countries.
Coming to 2012, figures saw a slight upward trend, for example, China has raised its funding to 100 billion, whereas Germany and the US decreased by 2 to 3 billion dollars. With regard to Western states, the UK’s investment increased to around 42 billion dollars, and France was declining. Russia saw a dramatic rise, increasing its spending to 40 billion dollars. Canada remained unchanged, being the lowest even in 201