There's always lists on the most popular countries. But in my travels, I've found going against the grain has been super rewarding - places like Chernobyl, in Ukraine, or the desert of Uzbekistan or the mountains of Tajikistan have been some of my travelling highlights.
Then reading a mostly fluff piece on the least visited places in the world made me wonder - and I'll need statistics to back this up please, which country has the fewest TOURISTS (that's people from other countries coming to this country for tourism) every year?
Three caveats:
- Antarctica is not a country (for the purpose of this)
- All the soldiers entering Iraq / Afghanistan do not count as tourists
- since countries come and go, ideally this would simply be the most recent statistics we can find, which is likely to be '2011' statistics.