{"id":11854,"date":"2024-01-19T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2024-01-19T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:10:33","slug":"unwto-international-tourism-recovers-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/unwto-international-tourism-recovers-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"UNWTO: International Tourism Recovers in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>International tourism is expected to return to its pre-pandemic levels this year, following a strong 2023 figure, the World Tourism Organization said on Friday.<br \/>\n&#8220;The unleashing of remaining pent-up demand, increased air connectivity, and a stronger recovery of Asian markets and destinations are expected to underpin a full recovery by the end of 2024,&#8221; the UN agency said in its first World Tourism Barometer of this year.<br \/>\nInternational tourism reached 88% of its pre-pandemic level in 2023 with 1.3 billion tourists arrivals, it noted.<br \/>\nThe Middle East led the recovery, emerging as the sole region overtaking pre-virus levels with arrivals 22% above 2019.<br \/>\nThe world&#8217;s most-visited region, Europe, hit 94% of pre-pandemic levels, thanks to intra-regional demand and travel from the US.<br \/>\nAfrica and Americas recovered 96% of pre-pandemic visitors, while Asia and the Pacific reached 65% of 2019 levels following the reopening of several markets and destinations.<br \/>\nInternational tourism receipts totalled $1.4 trillion in 2023, down 7% from 1.5 trillion in 2019, according to preliminary estimates from the agency.<br \/>\nTotal export revenues from tourism (including passenger transport) are projected at $1.6 trillion in 2023, nearly 95% of the $1.7 trillion from 2019.<br \/>\nThe preliminary estimates showed the economic contribution of tourism was $3.3 trillion in 2023, or 3% of global gross domestic product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed International tourism is expected to return to its pre-pandemic levels this year, following a strong 2023 figure, the World Tourism Organization said on Friday. &#8220;The unleashing of remaining pent-up demand, increased air connectivity, and a stronger recovery of Asian markets and destinations are expected to underpin a full recovery by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11856,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions\/11856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}