Guinea-Bissau recorded a total of 52,400 tourists in 2019, ranking 194th in the world in absolute terms.
That smaller countries regularly perform lower in a comparison of the absolute number of guests, is obvious. By putting the tourist numbers in relation to the population of Guinea-Bissau, the result is much more comparable picture: With 0.027 tourists per resident, Guinea-Bissau ranked 179th in the world. In Western Africa, it ranked 8th.
Guinea-Bissau generated around 20.00 million US Dollar in the tourism sector alone. This corresponds to 1.4 percent of its the gross domestic product and approximately 0 percent of all international tourism receipts in Western Africa.
On average, each of the tourists arriving in 2018 spent about 318 US Dollars.
Development of the tourism sector in Guinea-Bissau from 2001 to 2019
The following chart shows the number of tourist arrivals registered in Guinea-Bissau each year. Anyone who spends at least one night in the country but does not live there for more than 12 months is considered a tourist. Insofar as the survey included the purpose of the trip, business trips and other non-tourism travel purposes have already been excluded. The number of people passing through within the same day, and e.g. crew members of ships or flights are also not considered as tourists in most countries. If the same person travels in and out more than once within the same year, each visit counts again.
Revenues in tourism
In 1997, tourism revenues amounted to 3.10 million USD, or about 1.2 percent of the gross national product. Within 21 years, the country's dependence on tourism has increased slightly. In the last year of the survey, the revenue now amounts to 20.00 million USD, accounting for 1.3 percent of the gross national product. Each visitor now spends an average of 364 USD for his holiday in Guinea-Bissau.
All data for Guinea-Bissau in detail
Year
Numberof tourists
Receipts
% of GNP
Income per tourist
2019
52,400.00
2018
55,000
20.00 m $
1.3 %
364 $
2017
49,500
16.44 m $
1.2 %
332 $
2016
45,200.00
11.50 m $
0.98 %
254 $
2015
43,800.00
17.30 m $
1.7 %
395 $
2014
36,100.00
20.80 m $
2.0 %
576 $
2013
35,500
17.40 m $
1.7 %
490 $
2012
35,400.00
6.80 m $
0.69 %
192 $
2011
36,700.00
14.50 m $
1.3 %
395 $
2010
22,300.00
13.60 m $
1.6 %
610 $
2009
16,000
12.00 m $
1.5 %
750 $
2008
18,000
38.20 m $
4.4 %
2,122 $
2007
15,600.00
28.40 m $
4.1 %
1,821 $
2006
11,600.00
2.80 m $
0.47 %
241 $
2005
5,000
1.60 m $
0.27 %
320 $
2001
7,800.00
2.70 m $
0.69 %
346 $
Our data on tourist numbers, revenues and expenditures are based on information from the World Tourism Organization. However, to ensure international comparability, the data for some years or countries were manually researched and corrected if they obviously included visitors without overnight stays. In these cases, the data were taken from the official communications of the respective national tourism authorities.
The WTO additionally points out that in some countries the number of tourists is only counted at airports, in others also at border crossings or even hotels. A comprehensive and reliable indication is therefore hardly possible in any country.
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