The table describes the changes of people who went for international travel in 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005. (million).

The chart provides information about the number of oversea tourists around the world on five different continents in 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005.

Overall

,

it is clear that

Europe had the most visitors over given periods, followed by America and Asia and the Pacific.

Also

, the trend in all cases was upward, except for America. In 1990, there were approximately 450

million

international travellers, around three-fifth of whom headed to American destinations.

However

,

although

the total number of foreign visitors substantially increased by almost 40% in 1995, mainly driven by tourism in Europe, the figures in the next ten years gradually increased and reached just under 0. 7 billion in 2005.

While

the majority of travellers visited European countries, accounting for more than half of total travellers each year, there was a minor change in the figures for America and Asia-Pacific in 2005. In spite of being popular second to Europe, American countries experienced a slightly decreasing figure from 118. 2

million

in 2000 to 113. 2

million

in the next five years.

In contrast

to cities in Africa and the Middle East, visitors in both continents were far behind the others, consisting of 28. 7

million

for Africa and 15. 8

million

for the Middle east by the end of 2005.