Overall, the number of visitors to all areas was likely to increase to varying degrees. It is also tangible that Europe was the top tourist attraction whose popularity rose dramatically over/throughout the period.
The given table demonstrates the statistics about overseas tourists to 5 particular continents, recorded every 5 years from 1990 to 2005 and determined by million(unit).
Regarding the three most favored destinations, at the beginning of the period, the number of international travelers to Europe was the highest, namely 280.2 million, and this statistic outnumbered that of America, Asia, and the Pacific with 80.5 million and 60.2 million respectively. Then, the figure for foreign visitors to Europe soared and reached its peak at 400.2 million in 2005. Despite being the third in 1990, the number of people traveling to Asia and the Pacific dramatically increased and eventually surpassed the second with 135.8 million compared to 113.2 million in 2005.
In terms of other destinations, in 1990, Africa, with 18.2 million international tourists, nearly doubled 9.8 million tourists of the Middle East. Then, the statistics for both destinations rose and ended at 28.7 and 15.8 million visitors in turn, which made the Middle become the lowest in the whole period.