Originally Posted by
Global321
I think you are underestimating the impact. From Forbes...
... “Tourism contributes 10% to EU GDP and creates jobs for 26 million people,” (All foreign tourism, not just USA)
....According to the report, visitors from the U.S. made up an astonishing half of total hotel nights in the bloc in 2016. That’s 74 of 137 million.
I don't think we should discuss numbers which are so obviously non-sensical.
The EU had around 500 m inhabitants in 2016. You can't seriously believe there were only 137 m hotel nights consumed? (In fact, there were over 2.5 b nights consumed in short-stay accommodation establishments in 2016.)