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 was the most popular destination which has not changed in the number of visitors during any given year. In addition, the other seven countries have only shown an increase in tourists several times, while only Hong Kong has lost about a million tourists in the same period.
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 by +1.5% with 66 million visitors travelling to this state. Spain and the UK also attracted large numbers of tourists; these two nations exceeded 2 million and 1 million each year, with the percentage indicator +1.8% and +3.6% respectively. In contrast, under 15 million visitors attended Germany and Hong Kong which had the fewest patterns in 2009.
In terms of remaining growing figures, Germany experienced the most significant increase, more than doubling its tourist arrivals with a +109% change rocketed from 11 million in 2009 to 23 million in 2010. Likewise, China also demonstrated a notable increase of +55%, followed by Turkey recording a growth of +33%, about 12 million people visited 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 a percentage of -11%.