According to the World Tourism Organisation, there were about one billion international tourists in 2013 .
The World Tourism Organization predicts that before the end of the decade China will double that.
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has announced its first extensive and in depth training course on Tourism and Biodiversity.
WTO the World Trade Organisation, not the World Tourism Organisation, which was set up well before the free-traders pinched its initials.
According to the World Tourism Organization, by 2020 China will have 8%, the biggest single share, of the international travel market.
The World Tourism Organisation says international tourist arrivals fell 1% in the second half of 2008, which may not sound bad, but compares with growth of more than 5% a year for the previous four years.
The World Tourism Organization is predicting that by 2020, not only will China be the world's top tourist destination, but also the fourth largest source of tourists for the rest of the world (after Germany, Japan and the U.S.).
It is largely because of the rise of low-cost, no-frills carriers, which often fly between secondary airports, that air travel between European countries has recovered to about the same level that it was in March 2001, according to the World Tourism Organisation.
As a result of the variety of actors represented (political decision makers, site managers, museum directors, local community representatives, the World Tourism Organization, the private sector, etc.), the seminar resulted in the creation of a detailed inventory of field experiences, shared best practices and identified constraints and challenges to tourism memory.
So far, the standardized approach, which was launched in June 2012 and is spearheaded by the International Tourism Partnership and the World Travel and Tourism Council, is geared toward companies that book conferences and corporate travel.
Disney believes it can change the world through tourism, but if that takes too long, it is willing to take a more direct route.
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International travel numbers have continued to increase at "pre-crisis levels", according to the UN World Tourism Organization, and are expected to do so in 2013 as well.
In April 2012, it won a prestigious sustainable tourism prize from the World Travel and Tourism Councils, following a similar Best Destination award from Responsible Travel in 2011.
The World Travel and Tourism Council reports that travel and tourism directly supports 99 million jobs around the world 3.4% of global employment in 2011.
As part of our efforts to educate consumers about responsible travel choices, TIES, along with several other global institutions and organizations such as the United Nations Environmental Programme, United Nations Foundation, Rainforest Alliance and the United Nations World Tourism Organization, has been working on developing a global process evaluating the effectiveness of certification mechanisms that clearly set apart sustainable from non-sustainable forms of tourism. (See: www.sustainabletourismcriteria.org for more information.).
The government was desperate for a flagship project to propel the country from obscurity into the world's tourism brochures.
This is compared with 9.5 million in 2011 and 14.1 million in 2010, prior to the outbreak Arab Spring, according to data from the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
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Nearly 40, 000, 000 people visited Las Vegas in 2012, and by most accounts the Las Vegas Strip was the third or fourth most popular tourist attraction in the world, dwarfing tourism icons such as Disney World and Niagara Falls.
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"The U.S. was hit on its own territory, and furthermore, the impact was done by civilian aircraft, which most probably will create a psychological effect that is much bigger than the Gulf War, " said Jean-Claude Baumgarten, CEO of the World Travel and Tourism Council.
The World Travel and Tourism Council, a trade body, talked this week of a 30% drop in global travel-industry revenues, before swiftly (and inexplicably) switching to a much less pessimistic forecast: a fall over the next 12 months of 10-20% in America, and less in Europe and Asia.
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Think about this the next time you submit an expense report: if business travel were cut by 25% for two consecutive years, global GDP would decline 5%, resulting in 30 million fewer jobs worldwide, according to a new report from the World Travel and Tourism Council ( WTTC).
The Madrid-based World Tourism Organisation decided to go ahead with its assembly after consulting the governments of South Korea and Japan.
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The scheme is the largest sustainable tourism certification in the world.
"I am confident that as an independent nation, Scotland, will soon become one of the most successful tourism destinations in the world, " he said.
"The economic downturn, combined with the current uncertainties, extreme market volatility and a decline in both consumer and business confidence, are expected to continue taking their toll on demand for tourism -- at least in the short to medium term, " the latest edition of the UNWTO's World Tourism Barometer, said.
But as Wales wanted to portray a warm welcome in the hillsides to boost tourism and entice business, the world will remember a reception where the roof leaked and the bunting blew away.
But officials are wary of reading too much into the mini-boom in tourism, noting that to the outside world eastern DR Congo remains "a war zone" and that although there are some signs of positive change, the country is a long way from emulating neighbouring Rwanda's dramatic transformation.
"The government has made a lot about the benefits which will flow from the Olympics, not just to east London but right across the country, and one of the principal benefits should be to benefit tourism, with people seeing around the world what Britain has to offer, " he added.
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