Down To 東京, With All Me Family

With Spring threatening to bring some decent weather, thoughts are inevitably turning towards our holidays and where we will be spending a few weeks away from work and there are plenty of websites and bloggers who will be offering helpful advice and According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s rankings, the top 5 visited countries are France (79.4m visitors in 2022), Spain (71.1m), USA (50.9m), Turkey (50.5) and Italy (49.8) so all those millions can't be wrong.
Or can they because according to a long running poll from Readers’ Choice Awards of people who have been to these places, France just about squeaks into the top 20 so where do the travellers suggest we go instead?
10th is Turkey then the mountains and valleys of Switzerland at 9th and Norway is 8th, Portugal 7th and it's neighbour Spain at 6 but it is a long haul flight to New Zealand for the 5th best country to visit.
Ireland is just outside the top three at 4th with Greece in the bronze medal position, Italy silver and the top destination according to people who actually travel is Japan which is a place very firmly on my bucket list.
The United Kingdom is 15th behind Australia at 11th which hurts a little but they have better weather than  us even if all the wildlife down there is designed to kill you but there does seem to be a disconnect between where the masses flock and where the masses who have flocked wishes they had flocked to.