There's a lot more to Italy than Rome and the Vatican. I've only been to Lake Garda and the Tuscany - never to Rome. Then there's also Sardinia, Sicily, Milan, Naples, Venice... Since it interested me: About 8.7 m people visited Rome in 2014.
Nah. They may get a huge proportion of the Rome tourists but not the tourists going to Milan, Venice, Florence, Turin, Naples, Genoa, Pisa, Sicily, Sardinia etc. It's actually annoyed me how ridiculous your statement is.
Bit surprised Austria receives almost as many tourists as Germany considering the size difference of the two places, and how much more well known Germany is.
That's surprising since more tourists go to Austria in the summer (15,1 mio) than in the winter. Wonder what all those skiers are doing here in the summer ;)
@cerealkiller Don't know where you got that information but as a German who visits Austria regularly both in winter and summer I made the experience that there are far more people in winter. At least in regions like Tyrol and Salzburg which are hotspots for German and Dutch skiers and Styria and Upper Austria for Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians. In summer Austria pretty much becomes a transit country meaning the roads are still packed but that's because everyone has to cross it to get to Italy and Croatia.
I thought the same thing. It might have something to do with the Vienna airport being the major airport for Slovakia and parts of Czechia and Hungary. In addition I wonder how much of it includes people doing weekend cruises on the Danube where Vienna is the point of origin or terminus.
I know several people who visited Russia. I don't know anyone who went to Poland... Poland ???? I could take Romania or Turkey, with beach holidays etc. But Poland ?
I am guessing that a lot of the tourists are people that emigrated and come back home to visit family. While Poland is a beautiful country and has a fascinating history, I don't think it has the same destination draw as others on the list.
I've been to Poland three times and met many people on vacation there each time I went. Lovely seaside area around Gdansk, Sopot, and Hel; tons of drunk Europeans filling up the hostels of otherwise lovely Krakow; WW2/Holocaust tourism going to nearby Auschwitz; and many other good reasons to visit in between those places. Plus, it's cheap and easily accessible from many big tourist source countries: sharing a border with Germany and Russia and having cheap flights coming in from France and the UK all the time..
why are people always surprised by this? It's not even that high on this list. If you include domestic tourism Poland is actually #3 in Europe behind only the UK and France.
Yeah, Poland was the only answer I didn't get. I've been there myself and it's a beautiful country but it isn't known as a major tourist destination. I expected Turkey, Romania (cheap beach vacation) or the Czech Republic (internationally famous for cheap beer) to be on the list instead.
I was very surprised by poland aswell. And no matter how interesting or great or kind people others have met there or had a good time. Those are all things you experience once you are there, and not things which interest atttracts people beforehand. Poland wouldnt occur to me as aholiday destination. not before many others, though it might be greater than others.
Because of It being close to the continent, it's the same with Indonesia, Japan, and The Philippines, it's all because of them used to be connected to these continents
ColoHarpare: Thank you! - I always wonder why it's considered European. It's incredulous how most quiz makers on this site strain themselves to lump countries into continents to which they don't belong (UK, Cyprus, Egypt) And keep countries out of continents to which they do belong (Trinidad, the ABC islands). . I also have a problem with Cote d'Ivoire being used on "C" quizzes when a "C" is needed and Ivory Coast being used on "I" quizzes when needed. Seems very random and disingenuous!
You shouldn't need to wonder why the UK is European. It's been officially placed in that continent because it is legally and culturally part of it.
Continents are not completely based off of how land has formed. It that were the case, Afro-Eurasia would be a continent and countries like Japan and Madagascar who have strong ties to the mainland nearby would be considered continent-less.
While I would agree that continental borders are a bit arbitrary, they're there for a reason, and its not like the quizmakers are deciding to put countries officially considered part of certain continents with those continents because they want to. Even arbitrary facts are still facts.
Divantilya, so let's get this straight: The UK should not be considered part of Europe, because it is an island, but Trinidad and Tobago should be considered part of South America - Because it is also an island????
If you've ever attempted a geography quiz or even ever thought about international geography you would understand that island countries which are legally, culturally, and by proximity close to a continent are officially part of that continent. To say that Japan isn't Asia or that Madagascar isn't Africa wouldn't make any sense, so how could the UK possibly NOT be European?
To be fair, there is more ambiguity to this than people are making out. From wikipedia: "Continental or mainland Europe is the contiguous continent of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and by some, simply the Continent."
So the UK is in the continent of Europe, but not in continental Europe, and may or may not be part of the European continent, depending on who you're talking to. In other news, the People's Front of Judea has entered into talks with the Judean People's Front...
To be fair, there is more ambiguity to this than people are making out. From wikipedia: "Continental or mainland Europe is the contiguous continent of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and by some, simply the Continent."
So the UK is in the continent of Europe, but not in continental Europe, and may or may not be part of the European continent, depending on who you're talking to. In other news, the People's Front of Judea has entered into talks with the Judean People's Front...
That might be a good thing. Iceland has a population of ~300000 so getting millions of tourists would cause structural problems. Locals are already complaining about more tourists coming to visit during the last couple of years.
Anyway, Austria is also a pretty country for hiking and Vienna isn't that uninteresting, too...
#1 France, #2 Germany and #3 Spain, then Italy #4 and Poland #5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom#Geography
Continents are not completely based off of how land has formed. It that were the case, Afro-Eurasia would be a continent and countries like Japan and Madagascar who have strong ties to the mainland nearby would be considered continent-less.
While I would agree that continental borders are a bit arbitrary, they're there for a reason, and its not like the quizmakers are deciding to put countries officially considered part of certain continents with those continents because they want to. Even arbitrary facts are still facts.
So the UK is in the continent of Europe, but not in continental Europe, and may or may not be part of the European continent, depending on who you're talking to. In other news, the People's Front of Judea has entered into talks with the Judean People's Front...
So the UK is in the continent of Europe, but not in continental Europe, and may or may not be part of the European continent, depending on who you're talking to. In other news, the People's Front of Judea has entered into talks with the Judean People's Front...
And I'm shocked Croatia did NOT make the list.