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The second UNWTO World Tourism Barometer of the year shows that the sector's swift recovery has continued into 2023. It shows that: Overall, international arrivals reached 80% of pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2023. An estimated 235 million tourists travelled internationally in the first three months, more than double the same ...

The latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer provides a comprehensive overview of the sector's performance in 2023, tracking recovery by global region, sub-region and destination. Key takeaways include: The Middle East led recovery in relative terms as the only region to overcome pre-pandemic levels with arrivals 22% above 2019.

According to the first UNWTO World Tourism Barometer of the year, international tourism ended 2023 at 88% of pre-pandemic levels, with an estimated 1.3 billion international arrivals.The unleashing of remaining pent-up demand, increased air connectivity, and a stronger recovery of Asian markets and destinations, are expected to underpin a full recovery by the end of 2024 (UNWTO Tourism ...

UN Tourism News. To mark the start of the United Nations 'Decade of Action', UN Tourism News was launched to provide the latest updates of UN Tourism's work and key insights from the world of tourism as the sector leads the way in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The report contains updates on the agency's activities in key areas including gender equality, sustainability and climate action, tourism governance and investments and innovation. Representatives of the G20 group of the world's leading economies, including tourism ministers, will meet in Bali in November.

An estimated 975 million tourists travelled internationally between January and September. 2023, an increase of 38% over the same months of 2022, though 13% fewer than in 2019 (UNWTO Tourism Barometer November 2023-Excerpt). Overall, tourism recovered 87% of pre-pandemic levels in January-September 2023.

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29 June 2021 Economic Development. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism could result in a more than $4 trillion loss to the global economy, UN trade and development body UNCTAD said on Wednesday in a report issued jointly with the UN World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO ). The estimate is based on losses caused by the pandemic's ...

Tourism suffers its deepest crisis with a drop of 74% in 2020 in international arrivals Tourism suffered the greatest crisis on record in 2020 following an unprecedented health, social and economic emergency amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. International tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) plunged by 74% in 2020 over the previous year due to widespread travel restrictions and a ...

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International tourism maintains strong momentum with 84% recovery up to July 2023. Travel demand continued to show remarkable resilience and sustained recovery, amid economic and geopolitical challenges. An estimated 700 million tourists travelled internationally from January to July 2023, 43% higher than in 2022 although 16% less compared to 2019.

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Tourism slowly restarting, after a 98% drop in international arrivals in May International tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) saw a decrease of 56% in the first five months of 2020 over the same period of last year, according to data reported so far by destinations worldwide. International arrivals declined 98% in the month of May, reflecting travel restrictions in nearly all destinations ...

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That's the message from UN chief António Guterres on World Tourism Day observed on Wednesday.. According to the UN World Tourism Organization (), tourism employs one in every 10 people on Earth.To protect tourism jobs, Mr. Guterres said that governments and businesses must invest in sustainable and resilient practices, embrace renewable energy, and better protect the "biodiversity and ...

International tourism showed robust performance in January-September 2022, with arrivals reaching 63% of pre-pandemic levels in the first nine months of 2022. The results were driven by strong pent-up demand, lifting of travel restrictions of more destinations, as well as improvement of confidence levels. Read more of the recent world tourism ...

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UNWTO and COVID-19. As the world is facing an unprecedented global health, social and economic emergency with the COVID-19 pandemic, travel and tourism is among the most affected sectors with airplanes on the ground, hotels closed and travel restrictions put in place in virtually all countries around the world. Therefore, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has launched a new dashboard on ...

The World Bank has suspended funding for a $150 million tourism project in southern Tanzania in response to allegations of forced evictions, killings and other violations of people's rights in ...

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According to new data from UNWTO, more than 900 million tourists traveled internationally in 2022 - double the number recorded in 2021.. Tourism recovery is foreseen to continue throughout 2023 even as the sector faces economic, health and geopolitical challenges. The recent lifting of COVID-19 related travel restrictions in China, the world's largest outbound market in 2019, is a ...

Takou (Makatau), (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) - The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada has some updates from the World Indigenous Tourism Summit (WITS), organized by the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance and held April 16-20, 2024, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The summit brought together 650 delegates from 26 countries, providing a platform for advancing Indigenous tourism worldwide.

According to the latest UNWTO data, international tourist arrivals are expected to remain 70% to 75% below 2019 levels in 2021, a similar decline as in 2020. Revenues from international tourism could reach US$ 700-800 billion in 2021, a small improvement from 2020 but less than half the US$ 1.7 trillion recorded in 2019.

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According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism saw a 182% year-on-year increase in January-March 2022, with destinations worldwide welcoming an estimated 117 million international arrivals compared to 41 million in Q1 2021. Of the extra 76 million international arrivals for the first three months, about 47 million ...