Africa’s Tourism Arrivals

International tourism arrival figures are a hotly debated issue but Tourism Tattler thought it would be interesting to take a look at arrival figures for the continent of Africa and rank them.

Movement indicates the comparison between 2011 to 2010 – figures are in ‘000’s.

RANK	MOVEMENT	COUNTRY	2011	2010	2009	2008
1		Egypt	9 497	14 051	11 914	12 296
2		Morocco	9 342	9 288	8 341	7 879
3		South Africa	8 339	8 074	7 012	9 592
4		Tunisia	4 785	6 903	6 901	7 050
5		Zimbabwe	2 423	2 239	2 017	1 956
6		Algeria	2 395	2 070	1 912	1 772
7		Congo, Democratic Republic of	2 192	2 100	1 923	2 089
8		Kenya	1 700	1 470	1 392	1 141
9		Uganda	1 151	946	807	844
10		Senegal	1 001	900	810	867
11		Namibia	1 000	984	980	931
12		Mauritius	965	935	871	930
13		Swaziland	879	868	908	754
14		Tanzania	795	754	695	750
15		Malawi	767	746	755	742
16		Nigeria	715	1 555	1 414	1 313
17		Sudan	536	495	420	440
18		Ethiopia	523	468	427	383
19		Angola	481	425	366	294
20		Cape Verde	428	336	287	285
21		Lesotho	397	414	320	285
22		Togo	300	202	150	74
23		Burkina Faso	238	274	269	272
24		Madagascar	225	196	163	375
25		Benin	209	199	190	188
26		Seychelles	194	175	158	159
27		Mali	160	169	160	190
28		Eritrea	107	84	79	70
29		Gambia	106	91	142	147
30		Niger	82	74	66	73
31		Sierra Leone	52	39	37	36
32		Botswana		2 145	2 103	2 101
33		Mozambique		1 718	1 461	1 193
34		Ghana		931	803	698
35		Zambia		815	710	812
36		Rwanda		619	646	621
37		Cameroon		573	498	487
38		Burundi		142	212	202
39		Congo		101	94	62
40		Central African Republic		54	52	31
41		Chad		71	70	61
42		Sao Tome and Principe		8	15	14
43		Comoros			11	15
44		Djibouti				53
45		Libya				34
46		Equatorial Guinea
47		Gabon
48		Guinea
49		Guinea-Bissau
50		Ivory Coast
51		Liberia
52		Mauritania
53		Somalia
54		South Sudan

Source: World Bank