The line chart below illustrates the amount of worldwide tourist arrivals in 5 countries from 1995 until 2010. Overall, all of the nations presented had seen the increase in that number.

The line chart displays the impact of pandemics and financial crises on international

tourism

, whose statistics were collected from 1993 to 2010.

According to

the line chart,

although

tourism

was influenced by the SARS epidemic and the 2008 Financial crisis, it rapidly recovered and continued to increase until the Covid-19 pandemic. In the 1990s, the number of international tourists was close to 500m, which gradually increased to approximately 700m in 2003 when the SARS outbroke but did not stop the increasing trend. The number was

further

elevated to about 800m in 2007. In the next year,

due to

the 2008 Financial crisis, there was a lack of 37m global visitors.

Nevertheless

, international

tourism

quickly recovered from the blow of the financial crisis and reached a peak of around 1400m in 2020. In that year the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed

tourism

and the number of tourists dramatically dropped by 1.3 billion to

such

a level that was even lower than the 1990s, only 450m.