Italy was the top European
destination for non-European tourists in 2014, Eurostat said
said Friday.
Non-continental visitors stayed a total of 57.36 billion
nights last year - equal to 17.5% of the EU-28 tally of 327.22
billion nights for the EU-28.
Britain followed with 45.6 billion nights or 13.9% of the
EU-28 total. Spain was close behind, while France brought up in
fourth at 40.0 billion.
Non-EU visitors represent a minority of travellers,
however, and only accounted for 12.3% of total overnight visits
in the EU-28.
The top countries of origin for non-EU tourists were the
United States and Russia, at 17.8% and 14.9%, respectively.
China was at 5.0%.
For Italy, however, the largest segment of non-European
visitors comes from Brazil, at 23.2% of the total, followed by
tourists from Japan and China.
Eurostat issued the figures in honor of World Tourism Day
on Sunday.
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