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Just wondering. But I hardly see any Americans in foreign countries. Seems they all have to work all the time. But in the many countries I travel through I gene
by holoduke 5y ago
Just wondering. But I hardly see any Americans in foreign countries. Seems they all have to work all the time. But in the many countries I travel through I generally see only Europeans , Asians and occasionally Australians. Hardly ever an American citizen.
- flohofwoe 5y agoAt least Berlin is chock-full with US peeps.
- kzrdude 5y agoWe see a lot of american visitors in europe (basically all over the place). In a normal year.
- qaq 5y agoAmericans take 93.0 Million international outbound trips each year
- yardstick 5y agoSource? Is this the number of passengers, aircraft movements, or something else? Also is it for American citizens or just people flying from US to non-US? Also factor in that many people who do fly, fly multiple times a year. If that 93m is individual passengers then you should discount it quite a bit to accommodate frequent fliers and overseas tourists returning home.
- qaq 5y agoA google search snippet :) thats number of trips taken by US citizens Number of US citizens who traveled is 44 mil so about half of the number of trips.
- netjiro 5y agoThe gp observation is anecdotal, right? In 2019 Germans made more international tourism trips than americans, despite having only a quarter of the population. But the observations depend on where you travel and see other travellers, right? Go to nw mexico and I expect most tourists are from the us? Whereas mallorca is practically the southernmost german bundesland? And cyprus presents plenty of russians? And comparing geography: Germany is geographically much smaller than the US, and in a place like Liechtenstein it is easy to make an international trip just to go shopping, even if you take the bike.
- qaq 5y agoall very valid points I think the discussion was in the context of USSR
- csomar 5y agoWhich is more than the population of Germany. These numbers must include Schegen movement otherwise the German are quite a touristy people. But including Schengen movements is like including inter-USA travel for Americans. I bet the US will rank much higher if we were to do that.
- helloguillecl 5y agoI wonder how this statistic would look if you'd stop counting Majorca and such as "international tourism" :)
- qaq 5y agoIn USSR foreign travel was severely restricted even to soviet block countries.
- uwagar 5y agowhat was the rationale?
- justsomehnguy 5y agoNot enough KGB officers to tail them. /s There was multitude of reasons but the main ones were what you needed to have a good standing in the society[0] and the need to control every aspect of that society. People who would see a (even a little) better living could start asking questions. One could say that was a result of fear. [0] the article provides one such example: > Because of Dmitry’s active involvement in the communist youth groups, when he was 15, his school sent him to the Pioneer summer camp in Nordhausen near Erfurt in East Germany.
- qaq 5y agoPeople were not supposed to see how people actually live in the "west" since quality of life was much higher even in other soviet block countries.
- oh_sigh 5y agoNot only to the bloc countries, but even travel entirely within Russia was also restricted and bureaucratically regulated, requiring internal passports and visas for travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_Union#1932%E2%80%931991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_...
- csomar 5y agoProbably luck or something about how you went that made you not interact with Americans. I met lots of Americans all over the world. Also: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/ST.INT.DPRT/rankings https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/ST.INT.DPRT/rank... The European numbers are probably a bit inflated due to Schengen and their closeness.
- KptMarchewa 5y agoMost of USA citizens live pretty close to either Canada or Mexico.
- SomeBoolshit 5y agoWhere? I mostly meet European tourists, as well, but that's probably because I only travel within Europe, which is where I live, so it's very easy to reach.
- thatfrenchguy 5y agoAmericans all go to the same places (they tend to be very trendy / checklist oriented and go for small amounts of time), it’s really obvious as a French person in America, all my American colleagues go to places I never visit in France and vice versa.