China Pictorial: WTCF and TRC-CASS Jointly Released the Report on World Tourism Economy Trends 2019

On January 16, 2019, the World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) and the Tourism Research Center, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (TRC-CASS) jointly released the Report on World Tourism Economy Trends 2019.

Release time : 2019-01-16 16:01:44

source : China Pictorial

Interactive, and others focused on the "Connectivity" feature, had an insight of tourism development trends, and shared their opinions on how to make tourism destinations more attractive so as to have in-depth dialogue and interpretation of the Report.

The total number of global tourism in 2018 reached 12.1 billion people, an increase of 580 million people over the previous year, with a growth rate of 5.0%. Compared with 2017, the growth rate dropped by 0.7 percentage points, and the total income of global tourism reached 5.34 trillion US dollars, accounting for 6.1% of global GDP, a decrease of 0.4% over the previous year. It is estimated that the total number of global tourism will reach 12.76 billion in 2019, with a growth rate of 5.5%. Compared with 2018, the growth rate will rise by 0.5 percent. The total global tourism revenue will reach 5.54 trillion US dollars, accounting for 6.0% of global GDP.

WTCF is the world's first international tourism organization focusing on cities. It always upholds the core concept of “Better City Life through Tourism”, actively builds a multilateral exchange platform for world tourism, and strives to promote cooperation and exchanges among global tourism cities, comprehensively enhance the competitiveness and influence of tourism cities, so as to provide new vitality to the sustainable development of global tourism.

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