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Costa Rica
Costa Rica abolished its military entirely in 1948, redirecting the resulting budget toward education, healthcare, and — significantly for its later tourism identity — environmental conservation, a policy legacy that's helped the country protect roughly a quarter of its national territory in parks and reserves despite covering just 0.03 percent of the Earth's landmass. That conservation commitment has made Costa Rica home to an estimated 5 percent of the world's biodiversity, an extraordinary concentration for a country its size, and the term "ecotourism" itself is widely credited as having been popularized substantially through Costa Rica's early and sustained investment in nature-based, conservation-minded tourism infrastructure beginning in the 1980s and '90s. The country's Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, a high-altitude tropical forest permanently shrouded in mist, and its extensive network of volcano national parks, including the active Arenal Volcano, give visitors direct access to ecosystems and geological features found in relatively few other accessible tourist destinations worldwide. Costa Rica's combination of abolishing its military to help fund conservation, its outsized share of global biodiversity, and its foundational role in popularizing ecotourism as a travel category has made it one of the most consistently recommended destinations for nature-focused international travel.
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France
France has been the single most visited country in the world by international tourist arrivals for decades running, according to UN World Tourism Organization rankings, a status built on Paris's global cultural draw combined with a genuinely diverse range of other regions — Provence's lavender fields, the Loire Valley's Renaissance châteaux, and the French Riviera's Mediterranean coastline. The country's wine and culinary tradition is protected by one of the most rigorous regional-certification systems in the world, the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée, which legally restricts terms like "Champagne" or "Roquefort" to products made in specific regions using specific traditional methods, a system many other countries have since modeled their own food and wine protections on. Paris alone holds an outsized concentration of the country's tourism draw, anchored by the Louvre — the most visited art museum in the world — and the Eiffel Tower, built as a temporary structure for the 1889 World's Fair that proved so popular it was never taken down. France's combination of holding the title of most-visited country in the world for decades, its legally protected regional culinary traditions, and Paris's singular global cultural draw has made it the essential reference point for European travel for generations of international visitors.
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