Statistical analysis of the EU countries from a touristic point of view

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the EU countries by taking into account major characteristics that effect tourism, such as the number of tourists that visited each country, the total number of nights that were spent in the local accommodation units and the total number of accommodation units available. These characteristics will be analysed both individually, using the graphical method, and collectively, using the cluster analysis, having as main objective the development of homogeneous groups that contain these countries. The results show that the optimal solution is to create 3 clusters, allowing a suitable differentiation between them, while keeping the homogeneity among the countries that form it.