How did France become the world's largest tourist country?

France's Tribune reported on June 24th that in 2020, the tourism revenue brought by foreign tourists to France will increase from 45 billion euros in 2009 to 49 billion euros, making France the largest tourism revenue country in the world. From 2005 to now, France is the first tourist destination in the world, with the number of tourists far exceeding that of the United States and Spain, but its tourism revenue ranks third after the United States and Spain.

France's tourism revenue accounts for 6.3% of GDP. In 2009, France's tourism revenue and expenditure surplus was 7.5 billion euros, ranking first in income, far exceeding other industries such as agricultural food processing industry. France's tourism industry has solved the employment of 6.5438+million people, which is four times that of automobile industry and 654.38+0.5 times that of agriculture and agro-food processing industry respectively.

France's tourism development plan for the next 10 year will pay attention to the needs of the middle class in developing countries and the young people in developed countries with rapid economic development. At present, the urgent task is to improve the accommodation conditions in coastal and mountainous tourist destinations.

The report quoted data from GFK (a German consumer research company) as saying that two-thirds of European holiday destinations are in China.

Among them, 60% of French people choose to spend their holidays in their own country. Comparatively speaking, northern Europeans are more willing to go abroad for holidays than southern Europeans.