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The organization looked at factors including business environment, safety and security, tourist infrastructure, cultural resources, and price competitiveness.
The World Economic Forum has ranked the best countries for tourists in 2019.
In its Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019, the organization analyzed data from international organizations and conducted a survey of executives, looking at five main factors in 140 countries:
Business environment
Safety and security
Health and hygiene
Human resources and labor market
ICT (information and communications technology) readiness
The WEF also looked at a country's prioritization of tourism, international openness, tourist infrastructure, cultural and natural resources, and price competitiveness.
Each country was given an overall score between 1 and 7; because the top score was shared by four countries equally, there is no No. 1 entry in the ranking below.
Most of the countries that made the top 25 are in Europe, but Japan, the US, Australia, and Canada all made the top 10 too.
Here are the top 25 countries for tourists in 2019, ranked.
