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Europe’s days as the leader of global tourism are numbered
DestinationsDespite rising competition from tourism destinations in Asia and emerging economies, Europe welcomed more than half of all international tourist arrivals in 2012, or 535 million foreign visitors, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Europe also earned the largest regional share of international tourism receipts, which reached an estimated total of $1075 billion [...]
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Japan’s Mount Fuji likely to become a Heritage site, but worries abound about effects
DestinationsLocal and prefectural governments and businesses surrounding Mount Fuji welcomed the news that the World Heritage Committee is expected to designate Japan’s most famous and popular mountain as a World Heritage site, despite concerns about what it will mean to the local environment and questions about how its preservation will be funded. Long the most [...]
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Chinese are now the biggest spending tourists globally, for the first time
DestinationsChinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world’s biggest-spending travelers after a decade of robust growth in the number of Chinese holidaying abroad, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said on Thursday. Chinese tourists, known for travelling in organized tours and snapping up luxury fashion abroad, spent $102 billion on foreign trips last year, [...]
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Relaxed visa rules allow tourism to grow in Asia and the Americas
DestinationsA record 1.035 billion tourists traveled around the world in 2012. As the number of tourists crossing borders grew each year, the restrictions and costs that keep them out of certain nations decreased. There are still those countries that seem near impossible to enter for even the most adventurous traveler, but overall, visa requirements have [...]
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The billion plus tourists: 1.035 billion traveled globally in 2012
DestinationsThe much awaited global tourism numbers are here, and we have now entered the era of the billion plus for the first time in history. The global traveler community crossed the one billion mark in 2012, and today the United Nations World Tourism Organization released the official figures: 1.035 billion tourists crossed international borders last year. Topline [...]
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Infographic: Where did the one billion tourists come from and where did they go?
Destinations» Get your daily dose of Skift: subscribe to our newsletter, RSS, Twitter or Facebook. The UN World Tourism Organization has been hyping up the one-billion-tourists-traveled-in-2012 mark today, which in and of itself is just a random marker, but on a macro level globally means more jobs — travel accounts for one in every 12 jobs and [...]
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Will you be the billionth tourist to cross international lines on Dec. 13 this year?
DestinationsA record one billion people will travel across an international border as a tourist in 2012, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. That means that one in seven people on the planet will participate in world traveling this year, an activity that just a few decades ago was exclusively for the wealthy. The [...]
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UNWTO is happy with 2012 international tourism growth at 4 percent, but warns of slowdown next year
SkiftXThe number of international tourists worldwide grew by 4% between January and August 2012 compared to the same eight months of 2011 (28 million more). With 705 million tourists up to August 2012, UNWTO remains confident that one billion international tourists will have travelled the world by the end of the year. Growth slowed down [...]
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Gastronomy and the hunt for authentic experiences: the future of food tourism
DestinationsThe new UNWTO World Tourism organization report explores the links between tourism and food. Food tourism has gained increasing attention over the past years. Tourists are attracted to local produce and many destinations are centring their product development and marketing accordingly. With food so deeply connected to its origin, this focus allows destinations to market [...]
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Global tourist traffic expected to hit 1 billion in 2012
SkiftXWith a record 467 million tourists traveling in the first half of 2012, international tourism remains on track to reach one billion tourists by the end of the year, despite global economic slowdown. The number of international tourists worldwide grew by 5% between January and June 2012 compared to the same period of 2011 (22 [...]
