The given table represents the statistics about how many tourists across the world visited the top nine international nations from 2009 to 2010, with percentage of changes over the 2 years.
Overall, it is clear that France is the main nation that has not changed in the number of visitors during any given year, while Hong Kong has lost about a million tourists in the same period. In addition, the other seven countries have only shown an increase in tourists several times.
Referring to the details, France had the highest number of international tourist arrivals in both years, with 76 million visitors, showing no change in percentage. However, the US during the 2 years period gradually increased to +1.5%. Spain and the UK also attracted large numbers of tourists, these two nations exceeding 2 million and 1 million each year, with a percentage indicator +1.8% and +3.6%. In contrast, Germany and Hong Kong had the fewest visitors, with patterns under 15 million.
In terms of growth, Germany experienced the most significant increase, more than doubling its tourist arrivals with a +109% rocketed from 11 million in 2009 to 23 million in 2010. Furthermore, China also demonstrated a notable increase of +55%, followed by Turkey recording a growth of +33%, about 12 million people attracted in these two nations.
Notably, Hong Kong was the only country which saw a decline, with tourist numbers dropping by 10 million to 9 million and with percentage -11%.