Busy Commercial Airports per Million International Tourists in the EU

Nov 29, 2018
Heavily Used Airports per Million International Tourists in the EU

The map above shows the number of airports that serve at least 15,000 passengers per year for every million international tourists each EU state receives.  Romania has the most airports for every million tourists.

Findings

  • The difference between the state with the greatest number of airports for every tourist, Romania, and the state with the least, Austria, is 6.98 airports per million tourists.
  • Romania has 25.66 times the number of busy airports per tourist that Austria does.
  • The median number of busy airports per million tourists in the EU is 1.21 and the mean is 1.99.

Caveats

  • Airport data is from 2016.
  • Tourist data is from 2012 except for Ireland which is from 2014.
  • All figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth.
  • Fifteen thousand annual passengers amounts to 41 per day, so busy is loosely defined.
  • The map is presented in an Albers equal-area conic projection.
  • The choropleth classification is based on Jenks or natural breaks.

Details

Although France has the greatest number of busy airports, it only ranks 13th when taking in the number of tourists it receives.  Romania, on the other hand, which has a commanding lead in this metric, has the tenth greatest number of airports in the Union.

Only nine states have more than two busy airports for every million tourists they receive: Romania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Poland.  An additional seven have greater than one.  However, it should be noted that Romania has few busy airports when compared to other states its size, and a state like Greece has to serve multiple islands.

Data

StateAirports (>15,000 Passengers)International Tourists
Austria621,211,722
Belgium57,560,025
Bulgaria42,632,062
Croatia910,138,696
Cyprus22,021,180
Czech Republic57,647,044
Denmark82,232,258
Estonia21,873,519
Finland172,778,464
France6242,327,929
Germany4130,299,258
Greece3411,230,515
Hungary44,163,641
Ireland72,242,815
Italy3548,738,575
Latvia11,096,274
Lithuania31,147,927
Luxembourg1950,421
Malta11,195,938
Netherlands511,633,584
Poland124,979,294
Portugal137,503,252
Romania121,653,361
Slovakia41,510,699
Slovenia12,124,724
Spain3848,100,647
Sweden304,943,811
United Kingdom4321,853,784

Sources

Eurostat.  2018.  "Arrivals at Tourist Accommodation Establishments."  Accessed September 18, 2018.  http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?query=BOOKMARK_DS-055748_QID_740A02AF_UID_-3F171EB0&layout=TIME,C,X,0;GEO,L,Y,0;C_RESID,L,Z,0;UNIT,L,Z,1;NACE_R2,L,Z,2;INDICATORS,C,Z,3;&zSelection=DS-055748NACE_R2,I551-I553;DS-055748C_RESID,FOR;DS-055748UNIT,NR;DS-055748INDICATORS,OBS_FLAG;&rankName1=C-RESID_1_2_-1_2&rankName2=UNIT_1_2_-1_2&rankName3=INDICATORS_1_2_-1_2&rankName4=NACE-R2_1_2_-1_2&rankName5=TIME_1_0_0_0&rankName6=GEO_1_2_0_1&sortC=ASC_-1_FIRST&rStp=&cStp=&rDCh=&cDCh=&rDM=true&cDM=true&footnes=false&empty=false&wai=false&time_mode=NONE&time_most_recent=false&lang=EN&cfo=%23%23%23%2C%23%23%23.%23%23%23.

Eurostat.  2018.  "Number of Commercial Airports (with More Than 15,000 Passenger Units per Year)."  Accessed November 25, 2018.  http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?query=BOOKMARK_DS-054100_QID_5E0B9564_UID_-3F171EB0&layout=TIME,C,X,0;GEO,L,Y,0;TRA_INFR,L,Z,0;INDICATORS,C,Z,1;&zSelection=DS-054100TRA_INFR,AIRP;DS-054100INDICATORS,OBS_FLAG;&rankName1=TIME_1_0_0_0&rankName2=TRA-INFR_1_2_-1_2&rankName3=GEO_1_2_0_1&rankName4=INDICATORS_1_2_-1_2&sortC=ASC_-1_FIRST&rStp=&cStp=&rDCh=&cDCh=&rDM=true&cDM=true&footnes=false&empty=false&wai=false&time_mode=NONE&time_most_recent=false&lang=EN&cfo=%23%23%23%2C%23%23%23.%23%23%23.

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