These are the world's most expensive countries to visit

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Travel is expensive. Between flights, hotels, meals, transportation, and the barrage of tourist traps, it is hard to keep to a strict budget when traveling in a foreign land. 

However, it's even harder if you don't do your due diligence. 

In the recently published 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report, the World Economic Forum ranks 141 world economy's based on the price competitiveness of each economy, or how cheap/expensive it is to travel in that country. This takes into account things like average cost of a flight to and from that area, average cost of hotel accommodations, cost of living, fuel prices, and purchasing power parity (PPP) *.

Knowing the costliness of visiting an area can make all the difference between traveling sensibly and hitchhiking back to the airport.

Note: Hotel and gas conversions are based on the US Dollar and information from the World Bank and are subject to change. PPP is relative to the country's home currency.

*An example of PPP: If the PPP in the United States is 1 and the PPP in Poland is .6, then a cup of coffee in Poland is 40 percent cheaper than it is in the US, relative to the Polish zloty. PPP is based on the GDP of each economy.