Receipts

Receipts include the expenditures of international inbound visitors including the travel expense. The United States of America has the highest amount of receipts. This has been constant throughout many years.

European countries fill a large portion of the total expenditures, around 33%. North America has a 17% of the total expenditures, East Asia and Pacific region constitute around 25% and Australia has 3%.

If though we know that France has the world’s highest number of tourists for consecutively for many years, we can see that USA has the highest receipts. USA earned around 256,000,000,000 US dollars even after having the third highest number of arrivals in the world with 79,745,920 visitors in 2018. Which means that every visitor approximately spent around 3210 US Dollars. But on the other hand, France with 89,322,000 visitors has earned around 73,125,000,000 US dollars which is around 29% of the total amount earned by USA. Every visitor in France spends around 819 US dollars. Spain earns more than France with 81,250,000,000 US dollars with 82,773,000 visitor.

One of the reasons that the United States of America earns much more than France and Spain can be due to the fact that the days spent in USA is more. Unlike, USA visitors of France and Spain, might spend just a night as they can be visiting the adjacent countries.