6 Charts Showing the State of European Tourism

Dan Peltier

October 9th, 2015 at 9:36 AM EDT

Photo Credit: Tourists at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Skift

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There's plenty for Europeans to see in their own countries and some non-EU currencies becoming more unfavorable to Europeans, such as the U.S. Dollar, makes choosing a European vacation even more ideal.

As common as European tourists seem in the world's most dazzling cosmopolitan cities and on the sunniest beaches, it turns out more than half of them vacation in their own country. Research from Eurostat, the European Commission's tourism data arm, found 59% of European Union (EU) citizens' hotel room nights spent on vacation last year were in their own countries and

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