18-5  Number of Oversea Visitor Arrivals by Country/Region
	(10 000 person-times)
Region	1995	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	588.67	1016.04	1122.64	1343.95	1140.29	1693.25	2025.51	2221.03	2610.97	2432.53
Asia	338.26	610.15	686.42	851.89	726.08	1073.14	1249.99	1358.82	1606.12	1455.10
Korea, D.P.Rep.	6.64	7.64	7.71	7.93	7.71	11.21	12.58	11.01	11.37	10.18
India	4.50	12.09	15.94	21.36	21.91	30.94	35.65	40.51	46.25	43.66
Indonesia	13.28	22.06	22.42	27.47	23.18	34.98	37.76	43.30	47.71	42.63
Japan	130.52	220.15	238.57	292.56	225.48	333.43	339.00	374.59	397.75	344.61
Malaysia	25.18	44.10	46.86	59.24	43.01	74.19	89.96	91.06	106.20	104.05
Mongolia	26.19	39.91	38.71	45.31	41.83	55.38	64.20	63.12	68.20	70.53
Philippines	21.97	36.39	40.80	50.86	45.77	54.94	65.40	70.42	83.30	79.53
Singapore	26.15	39.94	41.50	49.71	37.81	63.68	75.59	82.79	92.20	87.58
Republic of Korea	52.95	134.47	167.88	212.43	194.55	284.49	354.53	392.40	477.71	396.04
Thailand	17.33	24.11	29.84	38.63	27.54	46.42	58.63	59.20	61.16	55.43
Africa	4.08	6.56	7.32	9.85	10.42	17.34	23.80	29.38	37.91	37.84
Europe	159.06	248.90	268.38	294.86	260.00	377.71	479.14	527.96	621.68	612.33
United Kingdom	18.49	28.39	30.25	34.30	28.83	41.81	49.96	55.26	60.51	55.15
Germany	16.65	23.91	25.34	28.18	22.20	36.53	45.49	50.06	55.67	52.89
France	11.85	18.50	19.95	22.21	15.61	28.11	37.20	40.22	46.34	43.00
Italy	6.37	7.78	7.77	9.17	6.58	12.24	19.70	19.53	21.52	19.44
Netherlands	3.49	7.60	9.30	10.04	6.79	11.74	14.58	16.78	19.41	18.09
Portugal	2.56	2.28	2.68	3.61	3.01	3.95	4.38	4.45	4.83	4.39
Sweden	3.52	5.36	5.28	6.28	5.00	8.72	11.03	12.96	14.51	13.77
Switzerland	3.43	3.07	3.08	3.24	2.37	4.07	5.14	5.79	6.46	6.34
Russia	48.93	108.02	119.62	127.16	138.07	179.22	222.39	240.51	300.39	312.34
Latin America	5.37	8.29	7.45	9.66	8.01	13.25	16.05	19.58	24.26	26.03
North America	64.36	113.28	120.31	141.26	105.29	165.67	198.53	221.00	256.15	232.12
Canada	12.88	23.66	25.39	29.13	23.03	34.80	42.98	49.91	57.72	53.47
United States	51.49	89.62	94.92	112.12	82.25	130.86	155.55	171.03	190.12	178.64
Oceanic and Pacific Islands	15.85	28.18	30.97	35.32	29.98	45.19	57.36	63.86	72.85	68.88
Australia	12.94	23.41	25.51	29.13	24.54	37.63	48.3	53.81	60.74	57.15
New Zealand	2.29	3.76	4.44	5.02	4.34	6.46	7.84	8.86	10.87	10.52
Others	1.69	0.68	1.79	1.11	0.51	0.96	0.65	0.43	0.31	0.23