MATTERS OF SCALE.

• Position: International travel statistics - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

MATTERS OF SCALE Travels and Tribulations Number of international tourist visits in 1950 25 million Number of visits in 2000 698 million Amount of money U.S. financier Dennis Tito paid per day to be shuttled by the Russians to the international space station as the first "space tourist" $2.5 million Average amount of money spent per day by each of the 467,000 tourists who each year visit the Maldives, where tourism accounts for 81 percent of the country's GDP $2 Projected number of tourists expected to visit France in 2020 (France is currently the top international tourist destination with 75.5 million visits in 2000) 106 million Projected number of tourists expected to visit China in 2020 (China, which will soon be the top international tourist destination, saw 31.2 million tourists in 2000) 130 million Number of international tourist trips expected in 2020 more than 1.56 billion Projected growth in the human population in that time 1.5 billion Number of permanent residents living in the U.S. state of Hawaii in 1999 1.2 million Number of visitors who traveled to Hawaii in 1999 6.7 million Average amount an international tourist spent...