Overview
While it is easy to find the top tourist destinations around the world, the identities of their least popular counterparts are less publicized; they remain hidden in lists of visitor statistics, buried in the reams of numbers produced by the international tourist industry groups. You have to look carefully - if you search on Google for some of them, you get no hits. They have exited the global stage, perhaps happily. But who knows? Their populace remains faceless to global media, their cultures obscured by the glare of the Big Tourist Destinations: France, Spain, the United States.

The challenge that this map answers is this: how to visualize the distance between the maximum and the miniscule? The scale itself is enormous. For every one person who visits Sierra Leone, 1,800 visit Austria. How can we represent that space without resorting to more picture postcards - iconic images that obscure instead of revealing?

System
This prototype was built in Director 8.5. It uses freely available tourism statistics for 2001 from the World Tourism Organization.


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