Global tourism faced its worst year on record in 2020, with the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announcing a 74% drop in international arrivals following travel restrictions and falling demand due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Destinations worldwide saw a 1 billion decrease in international visitors last year, compared to a decline of only 4% during the 2009 global economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to UNWTO data, estimated export revenue losses reached $1.3 trillion, 11 times higher than the losses in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crisis put between 100 and 120 million direct tourism jobs at risk, most of them in SMEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The outlook for 2021 is mixed. Nearly half of the experts who responded to the UNWTO survey (45%) expect better prospects in 2021 compared to 2020, 25% expect similar performance, while 30% expect results to worsen this year. Most experts do not expect a return to pre-pandemic levels before 2023.<\/p>\n\n
International arrivals dropped by 74% in 2020 compared to the previous year, marking the worst year on record for the global tourism industry.<\/p>How much revenue was lost in the global tourism sector?<\/strong> The sector lost approximately $1.3 trillion in export revenues, which is 11 times more than the losses recorded during the 2009 global economic crisis.<\/p>When is global tourism expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels?<\/strong> Most experts surveyed by the UNWTO do not anticipate a full recovery to pre-pandemic levels before 2023, with mixed outlooks for the immediate future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Global tourism faced its worst year on record in 2020, with the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announcing a 74% drop in international arrivals following travel restrictions and falling demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. Destinations worldwide saw a 1 billion decrease in international visitors last year, compared to a decline of only 4% during the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":69571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-117967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"on","post-style":"style2","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117967"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=117967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}