The table gives information about the proportion of oversea tourists visited nine different countries, France, the US, Spain, the UK, Italy, Turkey, China, Germany, and Hong Kong, from 2009 to 2010. Overall, most of the countries increased flow of tourists, but Hong Kong bucked the trend by decreasing. Germany and China showed the highest results at the final year.
Initially, European countries, France, Spain, the UK, and Italy recorded the highest numbers of international visitors in 2009, with 76, 55, 55, and 44 million, respectively. France remained unchanged in 2010, holding its position as the top destination with 76 million visitors. In contrast, Spain and the UK experienced small rises to 56 and 57 million, representing 1.8% and 3.6% growth, respectively. Italy also saw a modest increase of 2.3%, reaching 45 million. Despite these increases, the growth was generally minimal compared to non-European countries, and the overall ranking among these nations remains largely stable over the two years.
Germany, China, Turkey presented big changes over 1 year period. In 2009, they started at lower points than European countries, 11, 22, 33 million tourists, respectively. In the following year, they underwent dramatic increases, Germany increased to 23 million, representing the highest change percentage among all countries at 109%. China and Turkey increase to 34 and 45 million of tourists, and exhibited high change percentages, former being second ranked at around 55% increase, and letter displaying roughly 33% rise.
Hong Kong, on the other hand, went against the trend, by showing decline. Initially, Hong Kong, started at 10 million visitors, but in the next year dropped to 9 million, which was about 11%. The United States, also showed minimal changed, starting around 66 millions and ending at 67 millions, by showing the lowest percentage change at 1.5%.