Today more and more tourists are visiting places where conditions are difficult, such as the Sahara desert or the Atlantic. What are the benefits and disadvantages for tourists who visit such places.

The line chart details shop

closures

and

openings

in a given nation between 2011 and 2018. Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that both figures were in decline, though most noticeably the number of

openings

. After erratic trends for both categories, by the end of the period

closures

had become more common. In 2011, there were approximately 8,500

openings

in the country, significantly higher than the 6,200

closures

. Over the

next

several years,

openings

dropped to a low of 4,000 and

then

partly recovered to 6,100 in 2014.

Openings

were more stable and rose to a peak of 7,100 in 2013 before reaching nearly the same level as

closures

in 2014. After

this

point,

closures

fell dramatically to just 600 in 2015 before returning to slightly depressed levels and finishing the time surveyed at 5,100.

In contrast

,

openings

declined less substantially to around 4,000 between 2015 and 2017 and dipped to end at 3,000 precisely in 2018.