Travel and Tourism Into the Future

Tourism continues to grow In the past 20 years, the number of foreign tourists visiting the UK greatly increased, foreign tourists visiting overseas visited this country, and in 1982 they visited the UK for foreign visitors to the UK The number of customers reached 20.6 million. By 2002, this number tripled to 54.9 million. Even in the context of the global terrorism impact on world travel in 2001, the number of UK resident overseas visits continued to increase by 5%.

Several organizations are aware of the contribution of tourism to future employment. The WTTC Tomorrow Travel Awards introduced several important examples of these efforts. Desert & Delta Safaris in Botswana, Streets International in Vietnam, and J. Both Willard and the China Hotel Education Program (CHEI) of the Alice S. Marriott Foundation show how new methods of training and integrated tourism create opportunities and transform consumers.

With 600 world leaders from the Dallas, Texas and the 16 th WTTC Global Summit and a leader from the public sector, we left a strong message to the future. As it is an industrial sector that accounts for nearly 10% of the world's GDP, the time has come for tourism to show a broader leadership position beyond its business, destination, and business boundaries. "Beyond Border Travel" is an internationally acknowledged philosophy in the US government officials, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization, industry chief executive officer, and global megatrends, security, finance, technology We are gathering leaders. After 12 hours of discussion, there were panel discussions with 70 speakers and 11 people. And the new theme was obvious.

The annual economic impact survey prepared by the World Tourism Association and the research partner Oxford Economic Research Institute shows that companies, NGOs and governments better understand the main trends of tourism and make important decisions for the future It is aimed to help. It covers 185 countries and over 25 regions of the world. Given the occupation directly related to sightseeing such as hotels, airlines, transportation facilities, the population of the world is about 119 million people. However, adding this number to other occupations that support these people will increase that number to 313 million. This is one tenth of the world's workers. Importantly, many of these tasks are semi-skilled and concentrated in developing countries. In the field of travel and tourism, we provide living to millions of people who often do not have other types of employment.