Articles tagged “wttc”

OK, we went a tad overboard with the criticism, but you get the point. The world's largest industry has done a huge disservice to itself by making the marketing of business of travel seem like the most boring business of all.

The last four years have been on the upswing because the four years below have been filled with so many challenges.

Despite its huge and continuing growth, the travel and tourism industry has a PR problem among Generation Y grads looking for serious business careers. The industry must fix its image quick, since it will be looking to fill millions of new jobs over the next few years.

Walsh outlines a bleak future for the UK, one in which the next billion tourists to traverse the globe skip over the island in favor of destinations with better access and easier entry.

The next few years will still be painful for these two tourism giants, and political and economic troubles that continue will not help the tourism economy.

Kyrgyzstan is big on our list of countries to go to in 2013, what's yours?

Fascinating list, if only to understand how vital the links -- literally -- to the outside world are for these countries, for their own economic growth.