Receipts vs. tourism dependence

The biggest earners sit far to the right, but the highest tourism shares of GDP cluster among small destination economies.

Scale is not dependence: the United States records the largest receipts at $213B, but receipts equal less than 1% of GDP.

The highest shares are concentrated: Andorra, Aruba, Macao SAR, Maldives, and Seychelles all exceed 55% of GDP.

Source: UN Tourism Data Dashboard, downloaded CSV. Dataset year is not included in the provided file. Rows with receipts reported as zero are plotted at $0.01B to fit the log scale.