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English or languish - Probing the ramifications
of Hong Kong's language policy

Quality Assessment
The Opportunity Cost of English Language Education

Tourism
International comparison of receipts and expenditures


Table 37b
graphs: 37a, 37b | 38a, 38b | 39a, 39b | 40a, 40b, 40c | 41
tables: 37a | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41

Table 37b The 10 countries who were among both the world's top 15 tourism earners and top 15 tourism spenders
 

 

2000
    Earners1 Spenders1

Country Rank Receipts
US$ billions		 Rank Expenditure
US$ billions
1 United States 1 82.0 1 64.5
2 France 3 30.8 5 17.8
3 Italy 4 27.5 6 15.7
4 United Kingdom 5 19.5 3 36.3
5 Germany 6 18.5 2 47.6
6 China (Mainland) 7 16.2 7 13.1
7 Canada 8 10.7 10 12.1
8 Austria 9 9.9 12 8.5
9 China (Hong Kong) 13 7.9 8 12.5
10 Switzerland 15 7.5 15 6.2
Sources:
World Tourism Organization. Tourism Highlights 2002. [online document - pdf format 200K] Table: Preliminary regional results - East Asia and the Pacific (05 March 2003).
World Tourism Organization. Tourism Highlights 2002. [online document - pdf format 200K] Table: World's top 15 tourism spenders (05 March 2003).
Note1: As only 10 countries were among both the top 15 earners and top 15 spenders, the rankings for each are not complete. Moreover the order in which the top spenders occur is according to their rank as earners.
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