Weekly Viz 2018-06-11

Tourism Density Index

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

Makeover Monday 0611

This week’s topic is the tourism density index. The dataset gives the info of top 10 over-tourism and under-tourism countries, including their number of locals, number of tourists, and rank.
As the tourism density index is simply defined as # of tourists / # of locals, it’s not surprising to see China on the top 10 list of under-torism :)

My Visualization

I am really struggling a lot with maps….. Tried for more than one hours, but still turned out with a simple map. Not sure what is the better way to visualize this type of geo data.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• Most of the top 10 over-tourism countries are in Europe. Some of them are here just because the country itself is too small (for example, Singapore)…
• Most of the top 10 under-tourism countries are relatively large (like China), or population-intensive (like African countries).

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