For a country with such a small population, Australia carries a lot of weight in the international travel area. I don’t have hard numbers to back this up, but I imagine that a higher percentage of Australians have traveled overseas when compared with Americans and perhaps other western-based tourists. Australia’s impact on its smaller neighbors is especially large: Fiji Visitors Bureau wants the Government to improve health facilities in the west as it embarks on aggressive marketing to lure the ’silver market’ while Australia important for Tahiti tourism growth. New Caledonia, Bali and NZ also get a heavy number of visitors.
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Looks pretty good to me! There are still multiple departures to take into consideration, but I’m still guessing that more Australians travel overseas when compared with Americans!
America’s population is approximately 14.5 times that of Australia. 295,734,134 to 20,354,151. (CIA World factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
Autralian departures overseas for April 2005 seasonally adjusted is 460,400 (AusStats 3401.0 http://www.abs.gov.au)
American departures overseas for April 2005 (excluding Mexico and Canada) 2,128,387 (U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2004-O-001/index.html)
I’ve got you that far someone else will have to do the math, but i think from my increadibly crappy math attempt that you are correct. In that approx 2. 6% of the Australian population travel to 0.717% of the American population. But then again maybe you want to do your own sums!
Aniz