Originally Posted by
Global321
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.
The term "extra-EU" in the report refers to countries that are in Europe but not in the EU: it does
not mean "the rest of the world beyond the EU".
The figures I quote are correct: in 2016 visitors spent 3.1 billion hotel nights in the EU, of which 74 million were visitors from the US.
It really should be obvious that the idea that Americans account for more than half of all hotel nights in Europe is insane.