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    5. Sufficient_Laugh9012 on

      This is great but now interested in top 5 each country or amounts or percentage of top countries compared to total.

    7. Timo8188 on

      We’ll have to see how this plays out, since the German economy has been in decline for quite some time. The green color (Germany) is pretty dominant on the map.

    10. lazydog60 on

      In Barcelona a few years ago, I was surprised to see more signs in Russian than in German; particularly since in some parts of Italy in 1975 I saw more German than English.

    12. Butterfly_of_chaos on

      Germans must be very unhappy at home, as they seem so eager to leave their country. /s

    13. Northlumberman on

      I expect that the large number of countries with German tourists as number one is due to a combination of a high population in Germany, and that in some other high population countries such as France or Italy a lot of people don’t go abroad on holiday.

    14. Fancy-Sherbet8787 on

      There is absolutely no way the average Romanian visits Ukraine, most could barely put it on a map before the war. Those numbers are Moldovans with dual citizenship (md-ro) who travel/work there and use their Romanian passport at the border.

    15. Ereine on

      What’s the source for Finland? I don’t doubt that Estonians visit Finland the most but many of them aren’t tourists but workers. The stats I can find for actual tourists put Germans on top. 

    16. Wang_King8 on

      If I see socks and sandals, I know they are Germans.
      Friendly bunch of pensioners

    20. Savings-Goose5798 on

      It’s always interesting to see how population size and domestic holiday habits shape these maps, not just pure tourist demand. The German numbers make a lot of sense when you factor in how many French and Italian tourists stay local for vacation. I also agree with the surprise about Turkey—you’d think their strong holiday culture would push more international visitors. Then again, maybe those numbers are already baked into the “other” categories or reflect different tracking methods.

    21. Yearlaren on

      Lol I just watched part 3 of GeoWizard’s Manchester video and at the end of it he video calls Ben who was on Spain.

    22. Odd-Law-8723 on

      The WWII joke is dark but honestly, it makes sense given how central Germany is and how many people there travel. I think the point about French and Italian domestic tourism is huge—why leave when you’ve got world-class beaches and cuisine right there? And yeah, Turkey being absent feels weird, but maybe they’re counting it as partly non-European or most tourists there are from other regions. It really shows how much geography, history, and population size shape these stats more than just “popularity.

    23. MrGianni89 on

      I think that if this was calculated on relative shares would have been much more interesting

    24. b00c on

      For Slovakia that has always been Czechia. I strongly doubt that there’s more Germans than Czechs in Tatras at any given time. 

      This map is wrong.