Countries with most tourism jobs worldwide 2022

China was the country worldwide with the highest total contribution of travel and tourism to employment in 2022. That year, these industries generated, directly and indirectly, nearly 63 million jobs in the Asian country. India and the United States followed in the ranking in 2022, with roughly 37 million and 16 million total travel and tourism jobs, respectively.

Countries with the highest total contribution of travel and tourism to employment worldwide from 2019 to 2022 (in million jobs)

Characteristic	2019	2020	2021	2022
China	82.24	69.71	73.31	62.9
India	40.09	29.14	32.1	37.21
United States	17.49	9.75	10.5	16.17
Indonesia	12.38	10.46	10.95	11.44
Philippines	9.51	6.49	7.82	7.82
Brazil	7.67	6.22	6.4	7.61
Thailand	7.84	6.66	6.86	6.99
Mexico	7.03	5.52	6.03	6.97
Germany	5.88	5.08	5.1	5.43
Japan	5.86	5.29	5.5	5.09
Vietnam	4.89	3.86	3.9	4.23
Pakistan	3.9	3.36	3.34	4.1
United Kingdom	4.28	4.09	4.11	3.64
Russia	4.05	3.74	3.77	3.2
Turkey	2.74	2.13	2.42	3.05
Spain	2.86	2.29	2.51	2.84
Italy	2.86	2.41	2.64	2.71
France	2.68	2.43	2.6	2.64
Egypt	2.42	1.89	2.16	2.37
Malaysia	2.28	1.99	2.09	2.14

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Release date

November 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2019 to 2022

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countries are ranked based on the highest contribution of travel and tourism to employment in 2022

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Data were collected by Statista based on the total contribution of travel and tourism to employment per country provided by the source. Figures can be found in the source's weblink by clicking on each country report. Data for 2020 and 2021 were previously published by the source.

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