I'm keen to find out the total number of business travellers to France
per annum - either presented in a domestic / international split or as
1 figure. Other info like total business travel expenditure in France
would be useful too.

Hello Busybee,

According to the chart “International Tourist Arrival by Country
Destination” by the World Tourism Organization there were 75,500,000
tourist arrivals in France in 2000.
http://www.world-tourism.org/market_research/facts&figures/statistics/t_ita00country.pdf

In the Discussion Paper “TOURISM, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH AS A
COMPONENT OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT” By Rogert Aertgeerts, on page 4,
the characteristics of the tourism market in the main countries in
Europe generating income from tourism are shown.

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France            Purpose of travel     %
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                  Business             12%         
                  Holiday              64%
                  Other Leisure        24% 
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Source WTO, 2001
http://www.who.dk/document/eehc/eehc6_9.pdf.


Given the above resources, if 12% of 75.5 million arrivals in France
are business travelers, the total number of business travelers to
France would be 9,060,000.


The following table shows the world's top tourism earners

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Rank   Country               Receipts (US$ billion) 2001
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1      United States         72.3 
2      Spain                 32.9 
3      France                29.6 
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Source: World Tourism Organization (WTO) © (Data as collected by WTO
June 2002)
http://www.world-tourism.org/market_research/facts&figures/latest_data/titr01top15._07-02pdf.pdf


Since I was not able to locate specific business travel expenditures,
we can obtain an estimate by using the figures above taken from the
World Tourism Organization. Although, a ballpark figure would be 3.5
billion dollars for business travel expenditures, (12% of 29.6 billion
dollars), this estimate would have to be lower as business travelers
don’t usually spend as much as leisure travelers.

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 “business travelers” expenditures in France
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Superb - and much faster than I'd imagined. This will keep my editor happy!