Top 10 Travel Destinations

The World Tourism Organization recently released their data for the world's top tourist destinations for 2005. Below is a list of the ten top countries that received tourists from another country, along with the number of visitors for 2005.

You can compare this list to the top twenty list for 1998. Since then, China has nearly doubled the number of tourists and Turkey has more than doubled their number of tourists in the last seven years.

1. France - 76 million
2. Spain - 55.6 million
3. United States - 49.4 million
4. China - 46.8 million
5. Italy - 36.5 million
6. United Kingdom - 30 million
7. Mexico - 21.9 million
8. Germany - 21.5 million
9. Turkey - 20.3 million
10. Austria - 20 million