The provided data illustrates the international tourist arrivals in 8 different countries and shows the changes percentage between the two-year period 2009/2010. Overall, all the countries seen a slight improvment except for France, Germany and Hong Kong.
First of all, it is possible to evaluate a marginal positive development of people who travel in the majourity of European nations, implementing a range of values which started from 1.8% in Spain arriving to 3.6% in UK. In contrast with this common trend France remained constant in its arrivals while Germany skyrocket his numbers having an increment of 109%.
On the other hand a range of different values is depicted for other continental countries. While USA followed european’s development growing from 66mln to 67mln arrivals, Turkey and China rose rispectively from 32 to 46 million and from 22 to 34. In contrast with these upward tendencies Hong Kong’s arrivals decreased from 10 millions to 9 millions underlining a downward trend and a percentage change of -11%.