The table illustrates how many visitors came to nine various countries, as well as the changes given in percentages from 2009 to 2010.
Overall, it can clearly be seen that the US, Spain, the UK, Italy, Turkey, China and Germany’s figures rose, whereas Hong Kong’s declined, and France’s remained the same. It is also notable that Germany had the biggest percentage of change, while the US had the smallest change among other countries except France and Hong Kong.
To begin with, the US and Spain’s number of visitors increased slightly by 1 million in one year having 1.5% and 1.8% changes respectively. Similarly, the UK and Italy did not have a big change, rising only by 2 and 1 millions, the UK having bigger change that Spain. In contrast, Turkey had 33 million visitors’ arrivals in 2009, and it grew considerably by 12 millions in 2010, the change being at 33%. China a experienced a similar considerable increase in the number of tourists growing from 22 million to 34 million throughout the period.
Turning to the remaining countries, Germany’s amount of tourists rocketed from 11 to 23 millions, having the most impressive change at 109%. Meanwhile, Hong Kong went over an opposite trend, declining by 1 million in 2010. Finally, the percentage of visitors’ arrival in France did not move, standing at 76 million and having 0% change.
