{"id":2949,"date":"2013-03-19T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:26:34","slug":"how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/","title":{"rendered":"How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/attitude-of-population-to-foreign-visitors1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/attitude-of-population-to-foreign-visitors1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1082\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/attitude-of-population-to-foreign-visitors1.png 1082w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/attitude-of-population-to-foreign-visitors1-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/attitude-of-population-to-foreign-visitors1-1024x516.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/attitude-of-population-to-foreign-visitors1-500x252.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1082px) 100vw, 1082px\" \/><\/a>When traveling around the world, tourists do not know which countries will welcome them, and which countries won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A recent report on world tourism by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_TT_Competitiveness_Report_2013.pdf\">World Economic Forum<\/a> fills that void. The report compiled a list of the most and least friendly countries for tourists. Using a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 stands for the unfriendliest countries, and 7 stands for the friendliest nations, the report ranks countries according to the attitude of the population toward foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As seen in the map above, among the unfriendliest nations we find Bolivia, Venezuela, Russia, Kuwait, Latvia, Iran, Pakistan, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Mongolia. Among the friendliest nations we find Iceland, New Zealand, Morocco, Macedonia, Austria, Senegal, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>Resource:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_TT_Competitiveness_Report_2013.pdf\"><em>World Economic Forum: The Travel &amp; Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When traveling around the world, tourists do not know which countries will welcome them, and which countries won&#8217;t. A recent report on world tourism by the World Economic Forum fills that void. The report compiled a list of the most and least friendly countries for tourists. Using a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='How Welcome Are Foreign Visitors in Your Country?' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/how-welcome-are-foreign-visitors-in-your-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,165,32,7,19,46,30],"tags":[1352,782,781,549,1366,1353,779,780,785,1365,783,784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}