TRAVEL TIPS: Most Visited Countries in the World

If you’ve ever wondered which country was the most popular tourist destination, here’s a lucky find on my part that will satisfy your curiosity.

The map below shows which countries get the most visitors every year.

It might not surprise you to find out that France is the most popular destination, welcoming in 81,400,000 visitors every year. If you’ve stepped foot in Paris and stood on one spot for 2 hours just observing the sea of faces that floats by, you needn’t be a statistician to agree with that poll.

Well, at 81,400 visitors a year, that’s nearly 20 million more visitors annually than the U.S. which comes in second.

Does sound fairly crazy, given France is 15 times smaller … but with wine, cheese, art, museums, monument, nudity, culture and thanks to Hollywood and many writers/ poets’ references to France … with images of romance, it’s a pretty irresistible combination and pull factor to visit.

I can’t comment much about the colour choices of the map created by Move Hub, other than it is absolutely awful … so if you’re in the same boat as me, fortunately there’s also a list of the top 50 below.

Rank	Country	Annual Visitors
1	France	81,400,000
2	United States	62,700,000
3	China	57,600,000
4	Spain	56,700,000
5	Italy	46,100,000
6	Turkey	34,000,000
7	United Kingdom	29,300,000
8	Germany	28,400,000
9	Russian Federation	24,900,000
10	Malaysia	24,700,000
11	Mexico	23,400,000
12	Austria	23,000,000
13	Hong Kong SAR, China	22,300,000
14	Ukraine	21,400,000
15	Thailand	19,200,000
16	Saudi Arabia	17,500,000
17	Greece	16,400,000
18	Canada	16,000,000
19	Poland	13,400,000
20	Macao SAR, China	12,900,000
21	Netherlands	11,300,000
22	Singapore	10,400,000
23	Hungary	10,300,000
24	Croatia	9,900,000
25	Korea, Rep.	9,800,000
26	Egypt, Arab Rep.	9,500,000
27	Morocco	9,300,000
28	Czech Republic	8,800,000
29	Switzerland	8,500,000
30	South Africa	8,300,000
31	Indonesia	7,700,000
32	Ireland	7,600,000
33	Romania	7,600,000
34	Belgium	7,500,000
35	Denmark	7,400,000
36	Portugal	7,300,000
37	Bahrain	6,700,000
38	Bulgaria	6,300,000
39	India	6,300,000
40	Japan	6,200,000
41	Vietnam	6,000,000
42	Australia	5,900,000
43	Argentina	5,700,000
44	Brazil	5,400,000
45	Sweden	5,000,000
46	Norway	5,000,000
47	Tunisia	4,800,000
48	Dominican Republic	4,300,000
49	Finland	4,200,000
50	Jordan	4,000,000

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