{"id":118251,"date":"2020-09-20T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T00:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/65-drop-in-the-number-of-international-arrivals-in-h1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:01:35","slug":"65-drop-in-the-number-of-international-arrivals-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/65-drop-in-the-number-of-international-arrivals-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"65% Drop in the Number of International Arrivals in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the first half of this year, international tourist arrivals decreased by 65% compared to the same period last year, according to data published by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). This decline led to a loss in revenue of 460 billion USD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only slightly more than half of the destinations relaxed travel restrictions by the beginning of September, and the return of tourism to 2019 levels could take 2-4 years, according to UNWTO.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3><strong>What was the impact of the pandemic on international tourism in the first half of the year?<\/strong><p>International tourist arrivals dropped by 65%, resulting in a revenue loss of approximately 460 billion USD.<\/p><strong>How many destinations have eased travel restrictions?<\/strong><p>By early September, just over half of the global destinations had relaxed their travel restrictions.<\/p><strong>When is the tourism industry expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels?<\/strong><p>According to UNWTO estimates, it could take between 2 and 4 years for tourism to return to 2019 levels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of this year, international tourist arrivals decreased by 65% compared to the same period last year, according to data published by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). This decline led to a loss in revenue of 460 billion USD. Only slightly more than half of the destinations relaxed travel restrictions by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":69232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[3795,2861,269],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-118251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-arrivals","tag-hotel-en","tag-omt"],"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\/118251","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=118251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118251"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=118251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}