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INTERNATIONAL TOURIST ARRIVALS 1969-1970
ARRIVEES DES TOURISTES INTERNATIONAUX 1969-1970
LLEGADAS DE LOS TURISTAS INTERNACIONALES 1969-1970

MIDDLE EAST/MOYEN ORIENT (1)

Country/Pays/Pais

Egypt
[raq
Jordan
Lebanon (2)
Libyan Arab Rep.
Kuwait (3)
Total

Arrivals/Arrivées/Llegadas

1960

1970

345 343
429 654
339 842
| 119 264
108 989
771 740

557 661
359 773
321 657,
1 210 157
76 621
756 853

2 343 092

2 325 865

Change/Variation/Variacion

Absolute/en chifa!
fres absolus/en
cifras absolutas

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Notes/
Notes/
Notas.

12 318
- 69 881
- 18 185
90 893
- 32 368
= 14 887

3.6
16.3
E 5.4
8.1
L 29.7
~ 1.9

- 17 223

- 0.7

1) 1970 figures are not available for the Syrian Arab Republic, where foreign
visitor arrivals numbered 468 106 in 1969.

2)

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New Series. Excludes Syrian arrivals via the Northern frontier. Estimated totals
of foreign tourist arrivals in the Lebanon were 1 080 700 in 1969 and 1 106 00D
in 1970.

Series includes all entries to Kuwait, and is not comparable with other figures
in the table. Not included in totals.

= : Arrivals of foreign visitors or tourists recorded by frontier check

VOL 24 - 1970