Tourism sector employees by country
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have...
What the numbers show
Tourism sector employees is currently reported for 30 countries. The highest value is 4,544 in Brazil; the lowest is 3.27 in Grenada.
The median across all reporting countries is 260.62, and the mean is 741.25.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,388.
Over the past decade 27 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Bolivia (up 188.1%), and the largest decrease in Grenada (down 25.7%).
Tourism sector employees: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 4,544 | 2025 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 2 | Philippines | 2,835 | 2023 | up 9.4% | flat |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 2,725 | 2025 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 4 | Egypt | 2,183 | 2024 | up 53.1% | rising |
| 5 | Thailand | 1,852 | 2025 | up 37.6% | rising |
| 6 | Vietnam | 1,555 | 2024 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 7 | Pakistan | 1,171 | 2025 | up 86.6% | rising |
| 8 | Peru | 816.63 | 2025 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 9 | Argentina | 816.35 | 2025 | up 56.9% | rising |
| 10 | Colombia | 502.33 | 2025 | up 48.0% | rising |
| 11 | Iran | 469.65 | 2022 | up 7.2% | falling |
| 12 | Dominican Republic | 459.2 | 2025 | up 59.4% | rising |
| 13 | Cambodia | 336.16 | 2023 | up 86.3% | rising |
| 14 | Ecuador | 320.43 | 2025 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 15 | Myanmar | 299.78 | 2020 | up 27.5% | rising |
| 16 | Sri Lanka | 221.46 | 2024 | up 25.2% | rising |
| 17 | Bolivia | 200.89 | 2025 | up 188.1% | rising |
| 18 | Angola | 167.09 | 2025 | up 84.1% | rising |
| 19 | El Salvador | 161.32 | 2025 | up 44.8% | rising |
| 20 | Costa Rica | 142.62 | 2025 | down 4.3% | flat |
| 21 | Zambia | 105.13 | 2024 | up 83.0% | rising |
| 22 | Georgia | 88.46 | 2025 | — | rising |
| 23 | Senegal | 72.49 | 2024 | up 41.1% | rising |
| 24 | Mongolia | 59.35 | 2025 | up 14.2% | rising |
| 25 | Namibia | 41.63 | 2018 | up 52.2% | rising |
| 26 | Botswana | 35.82 | 2024 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 27 | Brunei | 21.14 | 2024 | up 49.2% | rising |
| 28 | Guyana | 16.6 | 2024 | up 54.8% | rising |
| 29 | Bhutan | 15.21 | 2025 | up 56.9% | rising |
| 30 | Grenada | 3.27 | 2023 | down 25.7% | volatile |
About this data
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have implemented the 19th ICLS standards, for which data are also available in the Work Statistics -- 19th ICLS (WORK) database. Employees are all those workers who hold paid employment jobs, which are those where the incumbents hold employment contracts which give them a basic remuneration not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work. For more information, refer to the Worker and Sector Profiles (PROF) database description.