Countries with the Most Tourists Per Capita

A great spot to establish a textile business or exploit the emerging tech market but hardly a choice destination for beauty. Sure, the beauty is there, but I'd pass on the Bang for a more civil country with equivalent draw.

Vermont and Bangladesh: I can barely tell which is which.

I've been to one of this, but I don't remember which?

@englishsystem, there are plenty of problems with Bangladesh, but "not civil"? That has colonialist undertones. I doubt you meant it that way, but it's still not a fair characterization. Bangladesh has a pretty low violent crime rate and is relatively stable. The worst thing tourists have to look out for is pick-pocketing or people trying to rip you off. Corruption is also a problem, but probably not something you'd run into as much at major tourist attractions. I'll grant that it's more dangerous for women, but even then I think it's okay as long as they are traveling with a male.

I definitely agree with Jerry and Yossarian that there are some very beautiful parts worth seeing outside the cities, and while Bangladesh doesn't have a very large tourism industry, it's something that being developed. Cox's Bazaar, for example, is becoming popular among Westerners. I think tourism will become safer and more feasible in the next few decades, as the country develops.

haha

fitheach +1

Maybe this was his only bussiness trip, the rest were personal holidays

day trippers are likely not included in the statistics

Vatican most likely wasn't included when I posted that comment. I'm not sure now if the sourceis the same for all countries, if Vatican is here, surely e.g. Singapore should be also.

Maybe they went to a part of the USSR?

We also have onerous visa requirements, until recently a very strong dollar (and it's still expensive even with the lower exchange rate) and the travelling distances between attractions within Australia are still vast.

I like how you have used the word still, like they are planning to shrink Australia in the near future ;)

I heard that they were going to. Not sure if they have yet or not. But if they do, those will be different from Hajj or Umrah visas.

I disagree

What a silly thing to say

not even close to being true. And the religious pilgrims that go to Mecca are not "religious pilgrims," they are, in fact, believers performing a specific religious duty. They are not tourists in any sense of the word. Unless Catholics taking communion or going to confession are tourists.

Though once in a while there will be an atheist working on contract basis in the country who converted to Islam for the lolz and used his Muslim laminate to get in to Mecca without any intention of performing hajj, but that happens very rarely, and wouldn't be counted in these stats anyway since he had his iqama and was officially a resident of the country at the time.

Taking communion is a specifically prescribed religious duty of Catholicism. Going on vacation somewhere and taking communion in a far away church is not. Performing hajj is a specifically prescribed, highly ritualized religious duty. Hajjis in Mecca are not there sightseeing. The Saudis have bulldozed most of the historically significant sites around the city to make way for more hotels and such. The only significant thing to them is the kabaa. It's very, very different.