What is the most visited country in the world?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This week we find out what the most visited country in the world is and ask why aren’t they capitalising financially as well as their rivals. Plus we also investigate the complex - and often controversial - web of international extradition treaties. The programme hears from extradition lawyer Anand Doobay, from Peters and Peters, and Ted Bromund, a senior research fellow in Anglo-American relations in Washington DC. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:54.8 | This week we show how numbers can shed light on the web of international politics |
| 0:59.6 | that surrounds extradition. |
| 1:01.6 | But first, for many people the holiday seasons arrived, which means we |
| 1:06.0 | the more or less team thought we'd get the deck chairs out, kick back and we'll see what |
| 1:10.4 | the data says about where everyone else is going. |
| 1:13.0 | And it's France. |
| 1:14.3 | Pleasingly, we've discovered this through a measuring tool |
| 1:17.1 | that's new to the program, the United Nations World Tourism Barometer. |
| 1:22.2 | It ranks the 50 most visited tourist destinations according to statistics it gets from national tourist boards and the like and Franz comes top. |
| 1:30.0 | Ben Carter's here. |
| 1:31.0 | 83 million people visited the country last year, comfortably outstripping its population |
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