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Tourism Indicator

Tourism Receipts

Money earned from international visitors during their trips.

Countries Ranked

25

Latest Displayed Year

2024

Category

Tourism Statistics

Unit

Reported value

At a Glance

Understanding tourism receipts

  • • This indicator belongs to the Tourism Statistics category.
  • • Values are presented in reported value.
  • • Rankings use the best verified or published record currently available for each country.
  • • Reporting years and official datasets may differ between countries.

Definition

What does this indicator measure?

Money earned from international visitors during their trips.

Significance

Why does it matter?

This indicator helps explain differences in tourism demand, activity, capacity, or economic performance between destinations. It is most useful when interpreted alongside related tourism indicators and the reporting context for each country.

Interpretation

How should it be interpreted?

Higher or lower values do not automatically indicate better tourism performance. Country size, reporting year, source coverage, measurement methods, and destination strategy may all affect the result.

Global Ranking

Countries ranked by tourism receipts

Only verified or published records with usable values are included. Reporting years and source datasets may differ between countries.

#1

United States

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$251.6B2024
#2

Spain

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$106.7B2024
#3

France

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$85.9B2024
#4

United Kingdom

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$84.5B2024
#5

Turkiye

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$78.2B2024
#6

Italy

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$61.4B2024
#7

Japan

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$58.6B2024
#8

Australia

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$53.8B2024
#9

Canada

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$49.9B2024
#10

Thailand

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$46.6B2024
#11

Saudi Arabia

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$46.3B2024
#12

Germany

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$40.1B2024
#13

China

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$39.7B2024
#14

India

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$37B2024
#15

Mexico

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$36.2B2024
#16

Portugal

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$35.4B2024
#17

United Arab Emirates

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$34.4B2021
#18

Macao SAR, China

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$32.4B2023
#19

Austria

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$29.2B2024
#20

Switzerland

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$26.5B2024
#21

Greece

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$26B2024
#22

Malaysia

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$24.6B2024
#23

Singapore

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$23.8B2024
#24

Qatar

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$23.6B2024
#25

Netherlands

UN Tourism · International Tourism Receipts

$22.6B2024

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Methodology & Data Notes

Transparent by design

TCTI rankings use the best currently available verified or published observation for each country.

The selected records may come from different reporting years or official datasets, so this ranking should not be treated as a perfectly synchronized comparison for one universal year.

The most frequently represented source in this ranking is UN Tourism. Individual country records may use other official sources.

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