Originally Posted by
Misco60
Forbes has seriously misunderstood the data in the report, and the journalist who wrote that claim should have sensed that something was wrong.
The report says that the total number of nights spent at hotels in the EU in 2016 was 3.1
billion, of which 74
million (i.e. about 2.4%) were accounted for by visitors from the US.
Americans don't even make up half of non-European visitors, as
the biggest source of non-European visitors to the EU is the Asia-Pacific region.
The full report is here:
European Union Tourism Trends (e-unwto.org)
No offense, but you are simply wrong on the purple section. I think you don't understand the numbers. Page 9:
Guests from
Extra-EU source markets spent 137 million
nights in EU accommodation establishments in 2016, and
guests from interregional source markets, 276 million. The
United States is the top source market outside the EU with
74 million nights, followed by Switzerland (44 million nights),
the Russian Federation (32 million nights) and China (25
million nights).
Exactly what Forbes said. (And this confirms my earlier theory that Forbes was quoting non-EU visitors.)
Let's let this go now.