The table compares the number of tourist visiting the eight countries and shows the changing proportions in 2009 and 2010.
Overall, the number of visitors increased in all countries except in France and remained the same keping the leading position. In contrast, Hong Kong declined and was the least popular country. The US, Spain, Italy and the UK had moderate rise whereas Turkey, China and Germany had significant improvments.
The France was the most prefferable country by tourists in both 2009 and 2010 years and remained the same quantati of visitors (76 million peolpe and with 0% changes). In contrast, Hong Kong was country with small and decresing number of people from 10 to 9 in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The US and Spain were countries with slight increase of tourists from 66 to 67 and 55 to 56 (1,5% and 1,8%) respectively. The next two countiries, the UK and Italy had growth more than 2 % , 3,6 % (from 55 to 57) and on 2,3 % (from 44 to 47). Turkey went up nearly a third (33%) from 33 to 45 million visitors while China had just over the half rise (55%) from 22 to 34 million people.
Germany was one of the least visited countries but with crucial rocket on 109 % (from 11 to 23 million people) between two years 2009 and 2010.