The Americas is the second largest continent with a surface area of over 42 million km2 (16.2 million mi2) or 30 % of the Earth’s total land mass (Figure 1). Its estimated population is 972 million (approximately 14 % of the world’s) and it includes 35 sovereign states and a number of dependent territories (UN-DESA 2013). The region possesses an extraordinary variety of tourism resources (natural, cultural, and built) shaped by diverse climatic, historical, and economic conditions.
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Pedro, A., Julian, M. (2016). Americas. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_641
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