This is just a matter of time. Almost all countries actually want US citizens to come there, for tourism purposes, due to their high spend potential (relative to other countries).
As I understood it China was fairly restrictive on who / how many of their own people could leave China for where as a tourist.
Is that not the case anymore.
This squares ok with geopolitical reasons, but not economic ones (although they certainly influence that map now and in the future).
It's hard to know. It's extra hard to know on outgoing as what I heard a while ago from someone from China (hard to know if they were really authoritative) was even if you qualified to go someplace else from inside China... your odds of approval was somewhat random / would ebb and flow.
Please do provide evidence of this. Most people I've seen being surveyed in Europe around tourists don't care where they come from, as long as they spend money and don't ruin stuff.
Americans, along with the British and the French, seems to be the groups that most people complained about when it comes to groups vacationing in Europe.
Edit: lot's of people replying, which is great. But none of providing evidence, which is explicitly requested in this comment. Would love to see some hard facts rather than people's anecdotes.
Citizens might complain due to the personal habits and practices of individual tourists, but bureaucrats that oversee the tourism industry (in relation to border entry) will have views based on which tourist qualities most positively impact the industry's income.
Here you go: https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-tourist-hot-spots-suffe...
I submitted this article to HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763588
What's « Europe » ? Different places have very different tourist demographics. The perception of the British in my part of France (we tend to get wealthy, French-speaking types) is very different to that in Amsterdam or Mallorca for example (where the « lads » got touring).
And I can guaranty you that the most universally hated place of origin for tourists across Europe as a whole is China.
Americans are just known for smiling like idiots.
Absolutely not - the group I hear the most complaints about are chinese tourists. Americans mostly have a reputation for being overly friendly to strangers here.
There are a lot of Americans, they have a lot of money to spend and they like to spend money on travel. Isn't this sort of a self-refuting point?
I suspect people complain about the most common tourists, since they'll be the most visible.
Right, but American tourists make up a significant portion of tourist spending. Ergo, if you want tourist money, you want American tourists. Not necessarily more or less than other types of tourists, but that's not important.
When 50% of your tourists are absent, because Americans are not allowed in, and you're out of business ... 'you care where they come from'.
This is bad for everyone and it's not just tourism.
And yes, plenty of people complain about American tourists. Frankly with good reason. But it all comes down to money.