Articles tagged “wttc”
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Travel’s Contribution to the World Economy Grows for the Fourth Year in a Row
The last four years have been on the upswing because the four years below have been filled with so many challenges.
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Travel and Tourism’s Recruiting Problem: Reaching a New Generation
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.
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British Airways boss says there will never be a third runway at Heathrow
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.
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12 sustainable tourism pioneers changing the world of travel
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SkiftStats: The troubled travel industries of Italy and Spain, in numbers
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.
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The world’s fastest growing countries in travel
Kyrgyzstan is big on our list of countries to go to in 2013, what's yours?
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The world’s most tourism-dependent countries
Fascinating list, if only to understand how vital the links -- literally -- to the outside world are for these countries, for their own economic growth.
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Tourism leaders say EU’s wrong-headed tourism taxes will only hurt revenues
Despite the lure of quick cash benefits, WWTC urges the 27 EU finance ministers to reconsider impulsive tourism taxes that have proved in the long run to decrease revenue as travelers try to avoid fees -- or just travel less.