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112 II. Visualizing Global Connectedness Tourists: Not too Far from Home (based on data from arrivals only) Tourism is the interaction on which our data are least complete: tourist arrivals by origin are unavailable for 36% of total worldwide arrivals. It is also on this component where there is the most inconsistency among the data employed for different countries. 5 With those caveats, the visualizations make intuitive sense. Given the shortrun nature of tourism relative to the other people flows that we cover, tourism is more regionalized and tourists traverse shorter distances on average than international students and migrants. The same patterns actually apply even more broadly: tourist flows are by far the most regionalized and occur over the shortest distances of any of the eight flows and stocks visualized here. Eight of the top 10 tourist flows, in fact, occur between neighbors that share a common border. Also note that our data exclude day trippers: if they were included, levels of regionalization would be even higher and distances traversed even lower. Especially compared to other people flows, tourism is also dominated by advanced economies: based on depth ratios, the average person in an advanced economy travels abroad once every 20 months, versus less than once every 13 years for emerging economies. And flows from emerging economies to advanced economies are relatively small compared to flows between emerging economies. The data therefore cast doubt on the perception in advanced economies that there are already “too many” tourists from emerging economies, especially China— although that country is, in fact, a significant source of growth in outbound tourism. So while tourism is a huge business that is estimated to account for 9% of world GDP and 1 in 11 jobs when its indirect impact is factored in, and while it could be boosted further through relaxation of visa restrictions (an estimated 63% of the world’s population need to obtain a visa before leaving on a leisure trip to a foreign destination), its further growth will require management of such perceptions. 6 5 The tourism data, unfortunately, mix together arrivals recorded at borders with arrivals recorded at lodging establishments and origins tracked by nationality and by country of residence, creating some inconsistency. This imperfect combination across data series, however, is a necessary compromise required to achieve the broadest possible data coverage. Its impact, for example is seen in having more incoming tourists in the data going to Spain than to France because we use Spain data recorded at borders (more complete) and France data recorded at lodging establishments (less complete). 6 Estimates of tourism’s contributions to world GDP and employment are from UNWTO World Tourism Highlights 2014. Analysis of visa requirements from UNWTO/WTTC, “The Impact of Visa Policies on Job Creation in the G20 Economies,” 2012.
DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014 113 Tourists Circular Visualization Scale: 1:1,000,000 Region Label Name North America MEX Mexico USA United States CAN Canada R-NA Rest of North America Europe SWE Sweden BEL Belgium UKR Ukraine NLD Netherlands GBR United Kingdom FRA France DEU Germany ITA Italy ESP Spain AUT Austria RUS Russian Federation CHE Switzerland GRC Greece Region Label Name Europe DNK Denmark R-EU Rest of Europe Middle East & North SAU Saudi Arabia Africa R-ME Rest of Middle East & North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa AF Sub-Saharan Africa South & Central Asia TUR Turkey R-CA Rest of South & Central Asia East Asia & Pacific JPN Japan THA Thailand MYS Malaysia CHN China HKG Hong Kong SAR (China) SGP Singapore R-AP Rest of East Asia & Pacific South & Central America, Caribbean SA South & Central America, Caribbean
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