Visualizing world tourism using bed space density (bed spaces / land area) can provide insights into how suitable a country is for travel.

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This data shows us how well-suited countries are for inbound tourism based upon bed space. "Bed places" are another term for lodging, including hotels, hostels, BnBs, etc... While there was limited United Nations data availabe for bed spaces, we can see from the plot above that more affluent countries are more likely to have greater density of bed space. Plots further down on this page display correlations with inbound and outbound tourism.

Comparing the cost of business start-up to the domestic tourism industry can provide insights into how easily residents of a country can build tourism-related businesses.

The plot above shows that there is a slightly negative correlation between business startup cost and total inbound tourism. The graph shows a general trend over the years that as business startup cost increases, the total inbound tourism decreases. This provides insight into how much value countries must put toward building strong markets that allow business people to create new industries. The insight tells us that increases in industry attract more people to visit a country. The graph also shows that global business startup cost has risen over the years.

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Comparing outgoing and incoming tourism to air transit passenger capacity can provide insights into how much plane travel affects tourism rates of countries.

This data shows a positive correlation between the total number of air transit passengers and the total departures from a country. This indicates that having a more developed air transit industry allows citizens of a country to tour internationally more frequently. The data over several years also shows that total air transit globally has stayed relatively constant over the past two decades, meaning the industry has not had significant expansion. Increasing spending on air travel infrastructure could increase global tourism.

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Visualizing ingoing tourism using the Gender Development Index can provide insights into how willing people are to visit a country depending on the country's gender equality.

This data shows that there is a positive correlation between Gender Development Index (based on UN ranking) and total inbound tourism. This indicates that countries with better track records on gender equality are more likely attract tourists and international business to the country. This makes sense especially in a business context because having legal gender equality ensures that businesswomen can make deals in the country.

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Visualizing incoming tourism using AIDS-related deaths can provide insights into how much the AIDS epidemic deters tourists from visiting countries.

There was limited United Nations Data on AIDS-related deaths globally, so only a minority of countries are taken into account with this data, as shown on the choropleth maps below.

The data in the scatter plot shows that there is little correlation between the presence of AIDS in a country and inbound tourism. Although we initially believed that there would be a correlation due to tourists considering public health as a factor in their travel decisions, this data indicates that AIDS-related deaths do not impact these decisions in a significant way. The lack of signifcance can also be seen between the two choropleth maps, which have little visual correlation.

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Visualizing outgoing tourism using the Human Development Index can provide insights into how countries with different levels of development are able to support their citizens traveling internationally.

Human Development Index data was only available for the year 2021, so there is no interactivity with a years slider on this data. Additionally, there was limited data available from the United Nations for Outbound Tourism in 2021. All available international data is shown on the graphs below.

The data above shows that there is a positive correlation between Human Development Index rating and total outbound tourism. This indicates that having a higher Human Development Index rating (which is partially influenced by economic development and citizen affluence) increases citizens' ability to leave the country as tourists, for either vacation or business.

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