Tourism quiz

More questions about Tourism

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1. 1 Easy

   Whose 2010 volcano grounded about 100,000 flights?

   Answer: Iceland

   Why: Iceland's foreign visitors then rose from about 489,000 in 2010 to about 2.3 million in 2018, nearly five times as many.

2. 2 Medium

   Who was the first space tourist to pay his own way?

   Answer: Dennis Tito

   Why: Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos only made their first suborbital flights in July 2021, twenty years after Tito's trip.

3. 3 Hard

   What do economists call tourist spending that ends up abroad?

   Answer: Leakage

   Why: Money leaks out through imported food and goods for tourists and through profits paid to foreign tour operators and airlines.

4. 4 Easy

   Which city told rowdy young British men to 'stay away' in 2023?

   Answer: Amsterdam

   Why: Its video ads appeared for men aged 18 to 35 in Britain who searched online for stag parties or pub crawls in the city.

5. 5 Medium

   Travellers from which country spent the most abroad in 2019?

   Answer: China

   Why: Chinese travellers spent about US$255 billion abroad in 2019, far ahead of second-placed Americans at US$152 billion.

6. 6 Hard

   Where did Vladimir Raitz's 1950 package holiday flight go?

   Answer: Corsica

   Why: The two-week trip cost about £32 all in, less than half the price of a scheduled flight to Nice then.