International Tourism Hit Pre-Covid Levels in 2024
Photo Credit: Two Japanese tourists visiting in Piazza Spagna Rome, Italy. International tourism surged in 2024 from 2019 levels. Wikimedia Commons / Jorge Royan
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Although the global travel industry's recovery is still uneven, finally hitting pre-Covid tourism numbers is a critical milestone.
Global tourism has finally recovered to pre-pandemic levels, UN Tourism said Tuesday: Roughly 1.4 billion people traveled internationally last year, a figure that's 99% of 2019 levels.
That's also an 11% increase — or 140 million more international tourist arrivals — from 2023, driven i
