Global Tourism Graph

Global change in travel and tourism revenue due to covid 19 by country 2019 2020.

World tourism day images. Job loss in travel and tourism sector worldwide 2020 by region. France reported the strongest increase in international tourism expenditure among the worlds top ten outbound markets 11 while the united states 6 led growth in absolute terms aided by a strong dollar. Prior to the coronavirus outbreak the global tourism industry had seen almost uninterrupted growth for decades.

This visualization shows how tourist arrivals have increased since shortly after the second world war in 1950. Travel and tourism industry revenue in selected countries in 2019 and projected impact of the coronavirus covid 19 pandemic in 2020 in million us. The covid 19 pandemic has caused a 22 fall in international tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2020 the latest data from the world tourism organization unwto shows.

The world tourism organization unwto has released its updated assessment of the likely impact of the covid 19 on international tourism. Job loss in travel and tourism sector worldwide 2020 by region. The tourism industry contributes around 103 of global gross domestic product and generates roughly one in four of the worlds new jobs over the past five years according to world travel and.

The united nations recognizes the world tourism organization as the appropriate organization to collect to analyse to publish to standardize and to improve the statistics of tourism and to promote the integration of these statistics within the sphere of the united nations system. Since 1980 the number of international arrivals skyrocketed from 277 million to. According to the united nations specialized agency the crisis could lead to an annual decline of between 60 and 80 when compared with 2019 figures.

68 years later this number has increased to 14 billion international arrivals per year. Global change in travel and tourism revenue due to covid 19 by country 2019 2020.