World Tourism Remains At a Standstill as 100% of Countries Impose Restrictions on Travel
COVID-19 has placed the whole world on lockdown, with new research from the World Tourism Organization showing that 100% of global destinations continue to...
The Future Is Now! UNWTO Recognizes World’s Best Innovators Facing Up To COVID-19
The top solutions for accelerating the recovery of tourism have been celebrated in the ‘Healing Solutions for Tourism’ Challenge. Launched by the World Tourism...
Covid-19: EU support for the tourism industry
Tourism is one of the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. Read more on how the EU is protecting businesses, workers and passengers.
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UNWTO: International Tourist Numbers Could Fall 60-80% in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a 22% fall in international tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2020, the latest data from the World...
Ubiquitous coronavirus: Do travel blockades work?
Over the past couple of weeks, many countries, including Iran, have imposed travel restrictions to help curb the spread of novel coronavirus. In this...
How the UN civil aviation agency is helping airlines take off again
In normal times, the world’s airlines would be carrying nearly 2 billion international passengers this year. That’s 5.7 million a day. But with the...
Support Tourism Recovery: Words Alone Will Not Save Jobs
The Global Tourism Crisis Committee has united behind the World Tourism Organization’s rallying cry for governments to “go beyond words” and begin taking decisive...
Tough times for tourism, but UNWTO predicts holiday traffic will return
Tourism may have been brought to a near-standstill by COVID-19, but the industry – which accounts for 10 per cent of global GDP –...
UNWTO Launches a Call for Action for Tourism’s COVID-19 Mitigation and Recovery
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of recommendations calling for urgent and strong support to help the global tourism sector not...
Calling on Innovators and Entrepreneurs to Accelerate Tourism Recovery
In the face of an
unprecedented challenge, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), with the
support of the World Health Organization (WHO), calls on innovators and
entrepreneurs to...