20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

[DisturbedPervert]

I'm sure Americans spend more on tourism, international or otherwise, than Germans.

I seriously doubt this is the case.  In my experience traveling Americans are very rare and Germans are common. 

[stjaba]

I'm sure Americans spend more on tourism, international or otherwise, than Germans.

I seriously doubt this is the case.  In my experience traveling Americans are very rare and Germans are common.

Maybe internationally. But Americans do plenty of travelling within the US.

[Admiral Yi]

Betcha Americans road trip more in college.

[Warspite]

Does international travel mean outside of Germany, or outside of Europe?

Outside of Germany. Why would it mean outside of Europe? 

It's just a weird comparison between Germany and the United States. Germany is surrounded by many countries within close driving or train distance, compared to the US, in which that is only true for people who live close to Mexico or Canada. I'm sure Americans spend more on tourism, international or otherwise, than Germans. IMO A more "equal" comparison would be money spent per capita on inter-continental travel, but that would harder to quantify

Equal comparison in what sense? Drive for 400 miles from your hometown in Europe and you will likely be in a country with a completely different language, religion and culture. Drive for 400 miles in North America and you're at the next truck stop :p

[Ed Anger]

I miss the days I could just get in the jeep and drive in any direction for a couple of hours. Just for the hell of it.

[citizen k]

I miss the days I could just get in the jeep and drive in any direction for a couple of hours. Just for the hell of it.

You can still do that. You just need to remember the car seats.

[garbon]

Drive for 400 miles in North America and you're at the next truck stop :p

SF to Los Angeles: ~400 miles

[MadImmortalMan]

You can't get credit for visiting Belgium if I don't get credit for visiting Chicago or Portland. 

There are different states in our federation too.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Whenever  there is an article in the press about tourism to Britain they always talk about American and Japanese tourists being particularly prized. The reason for that is their spend per day, which far exceeds the amount most Europeans spend per day. But then, their annual holiday entitlement is rather limited, whereas Europeans may well be taking several weeks abroad every year, so need to be relatively parsimonious.

[jimmy olsen]

I know one Euro nationality that travels and that is the Germans.  You cannot go to any tourist destination in the US without running into a bunch of Germans with the obvious exception of those places only interesting to Americans like Gettysburg.

The Germans I saw going apeshit at the WWII German displays at the Air Force Museum was hilarious.

Why were they going apeshit?

[citizen k]

The Germans I saw going apeshit at the WWII German displays at the Air Force Museum was hilarious.

Why were they going apeshit?

OH NOES! THE CARPET BOMBING111

[The Larch]

I'm recalling a bit on the major city visiting in your own country thingie and came to realize I've never been to Bilbao, and only very briefly to Sevilla.  All other big cities and most mid-size cities I've visited.

[Duque de Bragança]

Never been to the south of the Mondego (except  for changing planes at Lisbon).

Havn't been to Marseilles but then it isn't really France and there isn't much to see there, specially for a Parisian

[Alatriste]

I read today that the night the Wall fell François Mitterrand half expected the Austrians to join the feast... and having lived through the World War, he didn't enjoy the idea of having a new Great Germany (BDR + DDR + Austria) appear on the map of Europe overnight! (and we can laugh at his unfounded fears, but certainly the fall of the wall unleashed a long process of redrawing borders in Eastern Europe, most of them pacific, but some in Yugoslavia could have belonged to 1939-1945).