Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report: Top 10 tourism industries

by Anna Brones   Mar 10th 2008 @ 4:00PM

If you're curious as to what countries have the most conducive environments for tourism, you might want to check out the second annual World Economic Forum Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008. Basically it's a report full of a lot of economic figures used to measure how good tourism industries are in countries around the world. This year's report put a special emphasis on economic development and environmental sustainability. Here are the top ten:

1. Switzerland
2. Austria
3. Germany
4. Australia
5. Spain
6. United Kingdom
7. United States
8. Sweden
9. Canada
10. France

I've been to 7 out of the top 10, meaning that the tourism boards are probably doing their job -- or I'm just visiting popular destinations. Surprisingly, popular backpacker destinations like Cambodia, Vietnam, and Nepal are at the bottom of the list. For the complete PDF of rankings go here.


Filed under: Learning, Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Australia

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