Can you name the the countries that have the highest international tourism receipts per $1,000 GDP? by Gleece

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Countries Most Dependent On Tourism Quiz

by Gleece

Created Nov 5, 2009 in Geography
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	zwieblekopf:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 14:44 GMT		3 points
	I didn't see east europe coming at all

	kristen58:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 17:36 GMT		6 points
	i would ever have thought of a few of those. Bulgaria? I would never have guessed that. Good quiz, though.

	Onno:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 20:45 GMT		3 points
	Luxembourg? I thought that was one of the richest countries per capita. Surprised to see that they make quite a lot from tourism.

	sbelkoski:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 21:14 GMT		2 points
	I didn't try Luxembourg after Liechtenstein got rejected. Great idea!!!

	HudsonHawk:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 22:13 GMT		6 points
	Good quiz. Surprised that the Vatican didn't make the list.

	Converge:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 05:45 GMT		3 points
	You're surprised about the Vatican? They're rich for other reasons. My question is, who goes to Lebanon as a tourist these days?

	micah:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 07:26 GMT		5 points
	The Vatican is rich asset-wise, but that doesn't mean it has a particularly high GDP. Remember, we're comparing to GDP, not to per capita GDP, and the Vatican probably has by far the highest ratio of tourists to permanent inhabitants of any country in the world. It looks like it wasn't included on the list at all, presumably because it's too small and integrated into the Italian economy to make computing or even defining its GDP at all reasonable. My guess is that it would top the list for just about any definition you came up with, though...

	Gleece:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 19:41 GMT		1 point
	The Vatican might not be as high as you think, because it is the ratio of tourism receipts (or money spent) to GDP, not the number of tourists to GDP. While it is certainly true that lots of people visit the Vatican, they don't spend that much money there. They are staying in hotels and eating in restaurants and doing all of the other things that tourists do in Rome not in the Vatican, so all of that money would be part of Italy's tourism receipts, not the Vatican's.

	Gleece:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT		4 points
	According to the CIA World Factbook, because the Vatican's economy is donation based, it has no official GDP. The economy section of the entry lists GDP as N/A. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vt.html

	sharon:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 23:24 GMT		2 points
	Interesting quiz. Much enjoyed!

	nateswimmer:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 03:13 GMT		2 points
	great quiz, but how in the world did The Gambia get enough tourism to be on this list?

	anarresti:	Feb 3rd, 2010 at 11:22 GMT		3 points
	Fine quiz! @nateswimmer - Gambia has a small population, large beaches, is reasonably stable politically and attracts lots of N Europeans during our winter, so is similar to the W Indian islands in the list

	cocky:	Feb 13th, 2010 at 16:37 GMT		2 points
	There probably aren't many places to spend money in the Vatican.

	bart122333:	Aug 26th, 2010 at 21:42 GMT		2 points
	@ cocky: Vatican Musea, Sistine Chapel, the Basilic... @ zwieblekopf: Croatia and Bulgaria are the new Spain and Italy, they have beautiful beaches and are a lot cheaper and less crowded. Surprised Turkey didn't make it, EVERYBODY goes on holidays there :)

	wipkid:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 17:37 GMT		1 point
	True, wasn't surprised about Bulgaria, Croatia and Gambia either. Luxembourg can also be easily explained: business travel.

	ankitj:	Sep 23rd, 2012 at 08:55 GMT		1 point
	Nice quiz. Dominated by island nations. I was only guessing island nations at one point. A tad surprised that an advance economy like Luxembourg gets more than 10% of its GDP from tourism! Might be because of its tiny size though.