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The big decrease in German tourists occured in 2001/2002 ! Why ???
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Economic slowdown: The economy from 1995 'til Merkel came in wasn't very good - near stagflation multiple times.
See what I mean: the lost of German tourists is more than TWICE made up by the gain in American tourists!
I'd rather the US, with its two hundred million plus additional citizens ..their geographical nearness ..their significantly higher income, ..and, as a general rule, their pushing for a higher standard, then I do the Germans that have stopped coming..
The British number more than doubles!
The Spaniard number pretty much doubled!
The Canadian number pretty much tripled! (by itself, the gain in Canadian tourist more than makes up for the lost in German tourists)
French tourist more than double too, so I'd say the German question has more too do with German's economic problems during the preceding ~10 years more than anything..
P.S. the German numbers in Spain show a fairly similar pattern.