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I don't know why so many Canadians travel overseas and so few Americans travel overseas, but maybe Canadians manage their money better.
Or maybe they have different priorities - or maybe it's so damn cold in so much of their country that they feel compelled to get away more often. Maybe they're more bored than Americans. Who knows?
I'm pretty sure that Canandians enjoy many of the same advantages that Europeans enjoy, such as free health care and more vacation time.
Well my work pays for my health care. don't know about vacation time, it's different for everyone.
I almost never travel oversees, if you give me a couple thousand dollars I would most likely buy a jetski or a snowmobile than a plane ticket to Tokyo.
it seems like many of you are operating under the assumption that americans really don't travel overseas much. this is complete nonsense, couldn't be further from the truth. since most of you are comparing americans with europeans as far as travel habits, lets look at tourist statistics for countries that are far away from both.
both europeans and americans are looking at around equal flight time to get to japan, 12-20 hours on average. in 2012 japan had 8,368,100 million international tourists. US was the fourth largest source country, contributing 717,300 tourists. the only european country that made the top ten was the UK at 8th, contributing 174,200 tourists. overall, japan receives more tourists from north america than it does from europe.
the united states again comes in at number four (again only being beaten by neighboring countries). 1.9 million US tourists. not one european country makes the top 10. the UK comes in at 11th with 600,000, germany at 13th with 550,000, and france at 15th with 460,000.
it seems like many of you are operating under the assumption that americans really don't travel overseas much. this is complete nonsense, couldn't be further from the truth. since most of you are comparing americans with europeans as far as travel habits, lets look at tourist statistics for countries that are far away from both.
both europeans and americans are looking at around equal flight time to get to japan, 12-20 hours on average. in 2012 japan had 8,368,100 million international tourists. US was the fourth largest source country, contributing 717,300 tourists. the only european country that made the top ten was the UK at 8th, contributing 174,200 tourists. overall, japan receives more tourists from north america than it does from europe.
the united states again comes in at number four (again only being beaten by neighboring countries). 1.9 million US tourists. not one european country makes the top 10. the UK comes in at 11th with 600,000, germany at 13th with 550,000, and france at 15th with 460,000.
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Who knows?
