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"tourism" Definitions
  1. the business activity connected with providing accommodation, services and entertainment for people who are visiting a place for pleasure
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"There's always a new tourism 'segment'– here in the Balearic Islands, for instance, we have mass tourism, beach tourism ... day trippers, gastronomic tourism, responsible tourism," he said.
Austria is a country where tourism is really strong, and especially skiing tourism, winter tourism.
Glossy videos and magazine advertising showcase a paradise island of multiple attractions including eco-tourism, bohemian tourism, spa and wellness tourism, even small-bore niche tourism like Jewish Jamaican Journeys.
"Tourism is always going to be a factor, but there are times when tourism is up and tourism is down," she said.
The 10-year tourism plan calls for intensified promotion and marketing, diversification of tourism products including development of sub-regional destinations, attraction of tourism investment, promotion of an ASEAN tourism standards certification system, expansion of connectivity and infrastructure, and increased participation of local communities in tourism.
They're promoting medical tourism, dental tourism, hotels, a lot of wineries.
A lot of Kenya&aposs tourism revenue comes from wildlife tourism.
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A lot of Kenya&aposs tourism revenue comes from the wildlife tourism.
This opportunity for tourism to do good is what Center for Responsible Tourism co-founder Martha Honey said is fundamentally what responsible tourism is about.
So, we need the government tourism authorities — such as Tourism Australia or state tourism commissions — focused equally on integrated planning as the marketing they currently emphasise.
No place is off the tourism circuit, so tourism grows with few limits.
Research out of the University of Central Lancashire finds that animal cloning can help drive food tourism, sport hunting tourism and safari-zoo tourism for educational purposes.
"This town is 100% driven by tourism but the tourism is empty," he said.
In fact, the tourism board publishes an online retirement directory at its tourism website.
Saint-Martin's economy centers around tourism, which gets 85% of its economy from tourism.
Michel Houellebecq: Tourism is a concept that's present in Platform, where the tourism takes place in Thailand and Cuba, and The Map and the Territory, about French tourism.
The push is part of an ongoing effort to make tourism in the region greener, said Amanda Charles, a sustainable tourism development specialist at the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO).
Asia Pacific's tourism industry overtook Europe in 2014 in terms of travel and tourism total contribution to GDP in absolute terms, according to World Tourism and Travel Council data.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand is the government agency responsible for promoting tourism to Thailand.
Online travel services, rural tourism, cruising and sports tourism were big investment areas, it added.
While Iceland tourism continues to trend upward, North American tourism elsewhere in Europe has declined.
How it's affecting tourism Okabe says the volcano has affected tourism on the Big Island.
"I rode that roller coaster that went from tourism to conflict tourism," Mr. Chatah said.
" According to the artists, the installation posits "climate change tourism is a form of disaster tourism.
As the world's largest source of outbound tourism, China is likely to dominate Arctic tourism, too.
The government said last year 1,000 more armed tourism police will patrol hotels and tourism sites.
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said preliminary tourism receipts rose 13.9 percent to S$24.8 billion.
Chinese tourism accounted for $277 billion, or 16% of international tourism, in 2019, the report said. 
Australia's tourism industry is both isolated and interconnected The tourism industry has always been growth-focused.
Tourism has surged in the region, and arctic tourism is especially popular in the summer months.
Tourism Australia, the country's tourism marketing organisation, is also targeting India as a key growth market as the Australian economy shifts increasingly from commodities exports towards services like tourism and education.
The South Korean and Chinese culture ministers, who also oversee tourism, held separate talks with Japan's tourism minister, ‎Keiichi Ishii‎, and adopted another declaration pledging efforts to boost cooperation on tourism.
Tourism investment will hit 1.25 trillion yuan this year, the tourism body forecast in an annual report.
"I think the facility will probably be launched on World Tourism Day," said Tourism Secretary Vinod Zutshi.
Free, ad-heavy paper tourism maps are also provided in many hotel lobbies and local tourism offices.
Birth tourism Looks like the US is starting to crack down on what's known as birth tourism.
Other steps aimed at supporting tourism will have to be proposed by the tourism ministry, he said.
It would eventually have shattered hundreds of small businesses, upon which NYC's tourism thrives, detrimentally affecting tourism.
Because Chinese tourism accounted for $277 billion, or 16% of international tourism in 2019, McKinsey predicted a 40% reduction in demand in the tourism and hospitality industries until the disease is under control. 
Tourism officials acknowledge the problems plaguing tourist towns: low wages, inadequate housing for workers and increased crime, problems that recently prompted the Tourism Secretariat to announce plans to improve housing for tourism workers.
Tourism last year represented more than 17% of the country's economy, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
Tourism last year represented more than 2018% of the country's economy, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
In 2018, the state saw its biggest increase in tourism ever, according to Alabama's tourism director Lee Sentell.
Tourism represented more than 17% of the country's economy last year, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
The tourism industry currently accounts for some 6% of Puerto Rico's entire economy, according to its tourism board.
National Geographic magazine's June 2019 investigative report on wildlife tourism doesn't sugarcoat the troubling truth behind wildlife tourism.
"Tourism is a form of pressure in this environment and the pressure of tourism is growing," said Holmen.
It's also ranked as a top medical tourism destination by the PHD Chamber Medical and Wellness Tourism Report.
Thailand's tourism industry would not be affected by the latest MERS case, Tourism Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul told Reuters.
Dominican Republic's Ministry of Tourism announced new safety measures on Wednesday, in hopes of calming concerns about tourism.
Data from the World Travel & Tourism Council shows tourism accounts for about 13 percent of Bulgaria's national output.
In April 773, the government centralized the administration of Hungary's tourism industry in the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTU).
The Australian Tourism Export Council has estimated international tourism revenue in 2020 could fall by 10% to 20%.
The Australian Tourism Export Council has estimated international tourism revenue in 2020 could fall by 10% to 20%.
Threat to tourism Botswana's wildlife attracts large numbers of visitors, and tourism is the country's second-largest earner.
As a conservationist and sustainable tourism expert, I am an advocate for a more responsible approach to tourism.
In 2017, international tourism alone drove to $1.6 trillion in earnings and in 2016, travel & tourism accounted for roughly 1 in 10 jobs in the global economy according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
His association, based in Seattle, jointly published the United Nations World Tourism Organization's latest global report on adventure tourism.
"A strong New Zealand dollar does provide a headwind for tourism," said Tourism Industry Aotearoa Chief Executive Chris Roberts.
The prospect of the virus spreading to the tourism-dependent Miami Beach area is likely to alarm tourism officials.
Leisure tourism is the largest market segment in the tourism industry, which accounts for 11% of the Chinese economy.
The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Bermuda Ministry of Tourism and Transport did not respond to requests for comment.
Medical tourism "Medical tourism," or traveling to another country for medical care, is a growing trend around the world.
The tourism sector accounts for 10% of Saudi gross domestic product, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Destinations fight over-tourism Following a year of over-tourism, some destinations decided to fight the crowds in 2019.
India's medical tourism industry could grow by 200% by 2020, hitting $290 billion, according to Ministry of Tourism figures.
Tourism, transit and other related industries may experience deeper impacts, such as Bangladesh's garment industry or Turkey's tourism sector.
The violence has periodically threatened to devastate the tourism industry in Acapulco and other tourism hubs along the coast.
Giles also claimed Uluru could be just like other tourism sites in the world, that mesh cultural sensitivities with tourism.
Joost Schreve compares the positive effect VR tours have had on real-world tourism to how television's inception affected tourism.
The Singapore Tourism Board credited the release of the 2018 romantic comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" for the spike in tourism.
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, the tourism industry contributed $8.8 trillion to the world economy last year.
Tourism in Jordan has also been booming and the Arab nation registered a 9.4% increase in tourism revenue last year.
"It would be preferable if the government would take measures to boost 'quality tourism' and not 'mass tourism'," he noted.
A large part of that will be paid by tourism companies to the newly founded Tourism Promotion and Development Agency.
The tourism sector was worth 0003 billion dirham ($29.7 billion) at the end of 2017, according to the tourism department.
Tehran worked to boost this burgeoning tourism sector with a large injection of capital and setup a ministry of tourism.
According to the UN World Tourism Organisation, sustainable tourism is: … tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.
Russian tourism to Turkey dropped 91.82 percent year-on-year in May, according to data from Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, accounting for only 1.65 percent of total tourism compared to over 13 percent a year earlier.
In coastal states such as Kerala - a tourism hub dubbed "God's own country" - whole communities like fishermen depend heavily on tourism, said Anish Kumar P.K., a state tourism adviser and CEO of The Travel Planners, a travel agency.
In June, Airbnb announced the Southern region of Italy won the Airbnb Community Tourism Programme, an effort to support sustainable tourism.
The country is also a key destination for medical tourism and halal tourism, with food and other products largely halal-certified.
The tourism industry made up more than 17% of the country's economy last year, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
The tourism industry made up more than 17% of the country's economy in 2018, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
"In the future we think tourism investment has huge potential with hot spots starting to spring up," the tourism body said.
The World Travel and Tourism Council, a trade body, says that tourism directly accounts for nearly 21970% of the world's GDP.
That $181 million has seen tourism spending increase $8.5 billion and the total impact is now over $100 billion in tourism.
Too small for a tourism board, Whittier and its surroundings can be found on North Carolina's state tourism website at Visitnc.com.
OVER the rubbery chicken at your next tourism symposium, challenge fellow delegates to name the world's longest-running national tourism slogan.
Tourism to North Korea -- especially Western tourism -- has risen significantly in recent years despite international tensions regarding the country's nuclear program.
"If they want to increase the tourism at Lake Toba, don't put on the label of halal tourism," Mr. Simorangkir said.
Rejoining the World Tourism Organization would neither benefit the American tourism industry nor reap a diplomatic windfall for the United States.
Last year, China ranked as the world's largest tourism market by expenditure, spending $277 billion, according to the World Tourism Organization.
And tourism brings in more foreign exchange income than the fisheries industry and aluminum production, according to the country's tourism board.
In a statement late Thursday, the Ministry of Tourism said that the tourism industry was not directly impacted by the hurricane.
Mainland tourists accounted for three-quarters of all tourism to Hong Kong last year, according to the Hong Kong Tourism Association.
Areas like tourism, tourism is SS: Yeah JMS: one of the areas that SS: It's huge at the moment isn't it ?
It's not just another form of tourism, it's sexual exploitation of children taking place in the context of tourism and travel.
Bahamas is the most tourism-dependent economy in the Caribbean and tourism accounts for 60% of the Bahamas' $9 billion economy.
"The impact on tourism should be significant drag on the economy because tourism is one of a few drivers now," he added.
" The executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, Ingrid I. Rivera Rocafort, said: "None of our tourism operators are in despair.
The China National Tourism Administration reported 4.57 trillion yuan ($93 billion) in domestic tourism revenues for 2017, up 16 percent from 2016.
"Cannabis tourism will be a healthy part of the tourism industry, which has not yet embraced cannabis," said Kush's founder, Neev Tapiero.
Only 21 percent of tourism policies in Australia referenced climate change, according to a paper published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Europe and Asia saw tourism increase by about 6% in 2018, while in the Middle East international tourism was up about 10%.
There have already been other terrorist attacks in northern Sinai and they haven't impacted European tourism or any other sort of tourism.
New data from the UN World Tourism Organization indicates that tourism in 2017 in San Marino grew by 31.1% year-over-year.
"Tourism is one of the few areas where the U.S. has a positive trade balance," said Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics.
Tourism is the most important economic driver and the main foreign exchange earner for the region, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
However, a tourism ministry official said the ministry was no more concerned about the potential impact of geopolitics on tourism than usual.
The government launched a tourism strategy in September that includes a 150% hike in tourism advertising funds to $180 million in 2020.
"Bethlehem is suffocating," said George Rishmawi, a tourism expert and executive director of Abraham's Path, a nonprofit that develops community-based tourism.
"As scholars of tourism, it's a well-held theory that the search for authenticity is the driver of modern tourism," Hom says.
"Creating such a tax makes no sense, unless the aim is to discourage tourism in Rio de Janeiro," said Mário Beni, a scholar of the global tourism industry who has served on the United Nations' World Committee on Tourism Ethics.
UNESCO cites the impacts of tourism — especially cruise ship tourism — as factors putting the city at risk of losing its World Heritage status.
Alain St. Ange, tourism minister in Seychelles', said his island country will work to protect its native environment while growing the tourism economy.
Estella's tourism office has been enthusiastically tweeting various stories about the viral statute, as has the tourism agency for the region of Navarre.
"The Indian election is like a festival," founder of Election Tourism India and Chairman of Gujarat Tourism Corporation Society Manish Sharma told Reuters.
The world's top 230.2 fastest growing tourism cities are all in Asia, according to new data from the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Outbound tourism numbers - which rose 16 percent in 2015 - are set to flatline this year, according to China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) data.
In 2202, Tourism Economics began noting weakness in inbound tourism activity—a trend similar to the recent drop in new international student enrollment.
Korea Tourism Organization, which promotes travel to South Korea, and the China National Tourism Administration, did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
People around the world are traveling more: There were 259 billion international tourism arrivals in 252, according to the UN's World Tourism Organization.
For years, some have referred to Chernobyl tourism as "dark tourism," a trend of visitors flocking to sites marked by death and suffering.
Pressed by complaints, Spain's Consulate for Tourism Affairs is moving to redefine international tourism, which made up 250 percent of Spain's 9.503 revenue.
But because there were fewer than 100 rooms on the island, the overall effect on tourism is minimal, the Caribbean Tourism Organization said.
"We are at a crucial crossroads," said Dirk Glaesser, the director of sustainable development of tourism for the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
There was 11 percent growth in Sub-Saharan African tourism in the past year, the company said, citing the UN World Tourism Organisation.
Vietnam's department of tourism is estimating the outbreak will cause $3 billion to $4 billion in direct damage to the country's tourism industry.
The 21970th anniversary of Antarctica&aposs discovery, an emphasis on experiential travel, and last-chance tourism are reasons why Antarctica tourism is surging.
China's tourism industry saw revenues of 583.6 billion yuan during the same period, up 13.9 percent against last year, tourism bureau data showed.
Tourism in Slovenia rose strongly because of a general increase of tourism in Europe and a successful promotion of Slovenia as a safe country.
Boobna explained that wedding tourism is an up and coming trend in India's wedding industry, similar to medical tourism in the health care sector.
According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, global tourism accounts for approximately 10 percent of the world's GDP and one in 10 jobs.
Following on from Monbiot's criticism, we might ask if efforts are directed at "sustaining tourism," or instead harnessing tourism for wider sustainable development goals.
Tourism Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul does not expect much of an impact on tourism, but "the mood and tone might be different", she told Reuters.
He said tourism social enterprises focused on helping communities, while traditional tourism businesses tended to be profit-oriented with a focus on volume growth.
Tourism receipts rose 13.9 percent to an all-time high of S$24.8 billion, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said, based on preliminary estimates.
The government is keen to create jobs and reduce its dependence on the oil sector by developing industries such as tourism, particularly Islamic tourism.
For its part, Cruise Lines International Association says it expects more tourism restrictions in some places and that it is committed to sustainable tourism.
Despite some energy and emission efficiency gains within the tourism industry, continued growth in global tourism means emissions will continue to grow, he said.
Tourism contributes 11 percent to Zimbabwe's $14 billion economy, according to Ministry of Tourism data, with the country's wildlife parks popular with overseas visitors.
In July, Vincente Torres, the director of Ibiza's Department of Tourism, said the island has a limited capacity and cannot sustain increases in tourism.
Other plans to overhaul tourism policy include doubling the country's spend on foreign tourism advertisements to more than $34 million by 2023, said Antonio.
The city lost approximately $200 million in tourism revenue between January and August, according to the National Federation of Commerce, Goods, Services and Tourism.
Governments, the press, and tourism organizations have asked about certification, he said, even if their primary concern appears to be tourism and self-image.
It was not possible to check this assertion because officials with the tourism administration refused to answer a single question about Stalin-related tourism.
Chinese travelers account for about a fifth of all tourism spending, more than any other country, according to the U.N.'s World Tourism Organization.
The United Nations World Tourism Organization reported that as of September 2019 Japan posted the second highest growth in international tourism receipts, after Australia.
"On any given day, about 60 percent of Aspen Skiing Company skiers are at Snowmass," said Rose Abello, the tourism director for Snowmass Tourism.
The government has identified 21 areas as niche tourism products that range from golf, polo to adventure tourism, but food is not on that list.
Tourism fell 10.32 percent year-on-year in February, to 1.24 million people, tourism ministry data showed on Tuesday, the biggest drop since October 2006.
Since 2014, China has been the largest source country of international tourism expenditure, climbing from seventh place in 2003, according to the World Tourism Organization.
Hong Kong's commissioner for tourism and the tourism board did not respond to Chan's ideas, the SCMP noted in its report on the panel discussion.
Tourism body SETE sees tourism revenues rising 1 to 20103 percent to about 15 billion euros this year, anticipating 27.5 million visitors including cruise passengers.
But tourism has rebounded in the last two years; more than 300,000 people visited Jerash in 2018, according to Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
"If anything changes and the tourism numbers are affected, the island will die," said Francis Dyer, chairman of the Lamu Tourism Association, in emailed comments.
Chinese tourists are collectively the world's biggest spenders on international tourism, forking out $258 billion last year, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
Tourism is one of the country's main sources of foreign exchange and nearly 1.5 million tourists visited Kenya last year, according to the tourism ministry.
Bulgarian tourism has been hit hard; Thomas Cook owed over 50 coastal hotels in the country about $40 million, according to the country's tourism minister.
Tourism — by itself a large source of growth — contributes to around 10 percent of the world's economy, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
China is the world's largest outbound tourism market with Chinese travelers spending $261 billion in 2016, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
During the 2000s, the impact of mass tourism—bringing touristification and "tourism gentrification"—would do its part to change the psyche of the city's streets.
Mexico's Secretary of Tourism Miguel Torruco Marques this month signed an agreement with the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) to promote LGBT+ tourism.
"Unlike cruises, land-based tourism is loosely regulated, and because of that, this segment of the tourism industry is growing dangerously fast," Mr. Kareus said.
The dent to tourism is a major problem for Japan, which welcomed 8.1 million Chinese tourists last year, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.
Mr. Davy admitted climbing without a permit and tourism officials then confiscated his passport and ordered him to report to the tourism department in Kathmandu.
Tourism is a key industry contributing $3.2bn to the city's economy every year, according Tim Harris, CEO of Cape Town trade and tourism promoter, Wesgro.
Sunac, which bought tourism projects from Dalian Wanda Group for $6.5 billion in 2017, set up the independent cultural and tourism group earlier this year.
On Tuesday, a royal decree announced the creation of the official Ministry of Tourism, which is replacing the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage. 
The coronavirus outbreak is expected to cause $3 to $4 billion in direct damage to Vietnam's tourism industry, Vietnam's department of tourism told Business Insider.
"Whilst bushfires continue to impact parts of Australia, many areas are unaffected and most tourism businesses are still open," Tourism Australia said in its statement.
PURSUITS | SUSTAINABLE TOURISM Sustainable tourism — bringing global awareness to travel and putting it into action — is a top priority for the United Nations this year.
The actual scale of domestic tourism is hard to judge, as scant nationwide data exists since the government dissolved the federal tourism ministry in 2011.
Tourism is a pillar of Fiji's economy, contributing more than 40 percent of gross domestic product, according to the Fiji Hotel and Tourism Association (FHTA).
The Dominican Republic is one of the Caribbean's top tourism destinations, with more than 6 million stopover tourists last year, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
There is a contradiction at the heart of tourism policies in Barcelona, which favour commercial operators and apartments turned over solely for tourism in tourist hotspots.
Georgia's National Tourism Administration believes that the probable loss for the country's economy from a reduced tourism flow from Russia will stand at about $710 million.
Ho Vandy, secretary-general of the Cambodian National Tourism Alliance, said the plan could help spur growth in tourism, but details needed to be worked out.
And your tourism, I can say this, your tourism is going to go up like tenfold with the expenditure of no money, so I congratulate you.
Singapore's Tourism Board has said it is premature to consider any impact on the tourism industry, stressing the tropical city-state remains a "safe travel destination".
The day is a ripple for Bali's tourism industry, which received more than four million visitors in 2015, according to statics from Bali Provincial Tourism Service.
Action is urgent to monitor the impact of tourism and protect treasured destinations, said Ben Lynam from the Travel Foundation, a charity that encourages sustainable tourism.
"We truly believe innovation can lead to many solutions to problematic issues in urban tourism development," said Zurab Pololikashvili, secretary general of the World Tourism Organisation.
"Cambodia has clearly established itself as an attractive destination for cultural and natural tourism," Hun Sen said at an international tourism conference in Siem Reap province.
Then the United Nations World Tourism Organization chose Luxor, home to the famed Valley of the Kings archaeological site, as its world tourism capital for 2016.
In 2016, Thailand's then-tourism minister said she was pushing to rid the country of its ubiquitous brothels and wanted Thailand to be about "quality tourism".
Opportunities: advertising and marketing, virtual tourism and travel, real estate, education We've already seen many compelling demos for VR tourism, as well as AR-based advertisements.
Mr. Sacks of Tourism Economics said policy proposals that would undermine longstanding alliances, along with Mr. Trump's rhetoric, could certainly hurt tourism to the United States.
Officials from the tourism ministry attended the Fitur International Tourism Trade Fair in Madrid on Saturday in the hopes of attracting visitors back to the country.
TOURISM The first sector to experience signs of a downturn is tourism, which had rebounded after being devastated by the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
The World Travel & Tourism Council said Dubai was the third largest city in the world in attracting direct international tourism spending, with $28 billion in 2019.
Concerns for the broader tourism industry are growing, as travel companies suggest their outlook for August and September "has dropped significantly," according to the tourism board.
The World Travel & Tourism Council said Dubai was the third largest city in the world in attracting direct international tourism spending, with $28 billion in 2019.
For the astronomical cost of living, all roads lead back to tourism — or, more accurately, to the state government's apparent prioritization of tourism over its citizens.
In 2017, Chinese people made 143 million international tourist trips and were the world's biggest spenders on international tourism, the United Nations World Tourism Organization said.
In reply, Li said China was working hard to promote a trade balance, with Chinese tourism to Europe now far greater than EU tourism in China.
Ahead of Tokyo 2020, the Japan National Tourism Organization said it plans to grow inbound tourism to 40 million by 2020, from nearly 29 million currently.
The Saudi tourism commission also partnered with the World Travel and Tourism Council, the global organization that represents the private sector of the travel and tourism industry, to help make the kingdom a top five inbound destination with 100 million international and domestic visits, by 2030.
Tourism accounts for 11.8 percent of Italy's gross domestic product and 12.8 percent of the country's jobs are in the sector, according to national tourism agency ENIT.
The Thai tourism body said in March that Thailand is aiming to move forward as a "quality destination" and it strongly opposed any form of sex tourism.
Check out more videos from VICE: Tourism is responsible for about five percent of global CO2 emissions, and transportation generates 75 percent of all tourism-related emissions.
A report by Tourism Economics, a global research firm, estimates Mexican tourism to the Golden State will fall 7% in 2017, and continue to drop in 2018.
" Tourism Minister Yariv Levin said the significant expansion of Ryanair should cut the cost of fares to and from Israel, while "expressing great confidence in Israeli tourism.
Although the public reason for joining the World Tourism Organization is to boost the American tourism industry, there may also be some political motivation at play here.
"As we saw tourism booming, we also saw the commodification of people in sex tourism, sex trafficking, and cultures just being bought rather than respected," she said.
Singapore's tourism receipts grew by two percent to reach S$5.4 billion ($4 billion) in the first quarter of 2016, data from the Singapore Tourism Board shows.
The show was required to mention the state's "Virginia is for Lovers" tourism slogan and link to the state's tourism website online, according to The Associated Press.
Joseph Harkins of the Medical Tourism Association said U.S. insurers already offer some medical coverage in Mexico and that medical marijuana tourism is in the industry's sights.
The Israeli Tourism Ministry has provided Air India with a grant to market its new route, as part of a campaign to encourage Indian tourism in Israel.
The tourism industry in Mexico, the seventh most visited country in the world in 2018, contributes 8.7% of total GDP, Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco said in January.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey expects 31.4 million tourists to visit the country this year and tourism revenues to reach $26 billion, Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Tuesday.
The coronavirus epidemic is taking its toll on global tourism, which according to the World Travel & Tourism Council contributed $8.8 trillion to the world economy in 2018.
It was his contention that a lot of them had sensed the change in the prevailing market winds and pivoted away from Troubles tourism to "Thrones" tourism.
The aim of the Jordan Tourism Board, which spans both private and public sectors, is to create and implement marketing strategies that expand Jordan's tourism potential worldwide.
While many cities have focused on reactive policies that are meant to quell tourism, they should instead focus on technology-driven solutions that can help manage tourist behavior, create structural changes to city tourism infrastructure, while allowing cities to continue capturing the significant revenue stream that tourism provides.
So that's why even though huge swaths of the northern Bahamas were decimated by Hurricane Dorian, other parts of the country are relatively OK. Tourism is its lifeblood Bahamas is the most tourism-dependent economy in the Caribbean and tourism accounts for 60% of the Bahamas' $9 billion economy.
Despite the slowdown in domestic tourism spending, more Chinese are opting for international travel, continuing a trend that has made Chinese the world's biggest spenders on international tourism.
The U.S. travel and tourism sector is the biggest in the world, accounting for $1.5 trillion, or around 20 percent of the world's travel and tourism GDP contributions.
"The government is just a facilitator, the actual work is done by the private sector," said Vikas Rustagi, regional director in the tourism ministry who handles niche tourism.
Researchers in the United Kingdom just released a paper in the in the journal Annals of Tourism Research that details how self-driving cars may affect urban tourism.
Total government spending on just tourism marketing, promotion and visitor-related infrastructure is expected to top $413 billion this year, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Around 22 percent of the country's GDP derives from tourism, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, and Kunta Kinteh island is among the most popular attractions.
Mexico's tourism industry had 21.5 percent growth from 2013 to 2014 and 9.4 percent growth the following year, according to numbers from the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
International tourism arrivals — or the number of people visiting countries other than their own — grew 4.4% to 1.18 billion last year, according to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
In 2014, tourism made up 2.4 percent of the country's economy and directly contributed 93.9 billion ($11.5 billion), according to a report by the World Travel & Tourism Council.
Tourism minister of India asks tourists to eat beef elsewhere The tourism minister of India has asked visitors to get their fix of beef before traveling to India.
The most recent tourism figures for the travel period spanning April through June will be released later this month, according to Visit Florida, the state's official tourism resource.
The first continent-wide assessment of poaching's effects on tourism reveal that the annual killing of elephants results in a $25 million loss in tourism revenue across Africa.
In Belize, where tourism accounts for nearly 13 percent of total employment, the country attracts more than 1 million visitors a year, figures from its Tourism Board show.
According to statistics from Quito Tourism, the tourism industry is the fourth highest source of income in the country and brought in more than $1 billion last year.
Russians are the second biggest tourism market in Turkey after the Germans, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism — around 4.5 million Russians traveled there in 2014.
Locals of Bhutan are concerned about both the environmental and economic impacts of tourism, due to their fragile ecosystem and relying too heavily on tourism for their economy.
It also drives significant economic activities like tourism and fishing; scientists said important areas for reef tourism, particularly in the north, have not been hit badly this year.
The two organizations responsible for destination management and representation of travel industry interests (Aruba Tourism Authority and the Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association) have women chief executive officers.
Total foreign arrivals, including those for tourism and business, declined to 1.09 million from 2.60 million in the corresponding month last year, the Japan National Tourism Organization said.
Total foreign arrivals, which include tourism and business arrivals, declined to 1.09 million from 2.60 million in the same month last year, the Japan National Tourism Organization said.
On the services side, China's outbound tourism increased by almost 11% per year or a total of 70% between 2012 and 2017, according to the World Tourism Organization.
Rachel Bremer at the Utah office of tourism told KUTV that if the virus continues to spread through the summer, Utah's tourism industry could take a heavy hit.
Barbuda's hotels were also damaged, yet as there were less than 100 rooms on the island, the overall effect on tourism is minimal, the Caribbean Tourism Organization said.
Barbuda's hotels were also damaged, but because there were fewer than 100 rooms on the island, the overall effect on tourism is minimal, the Caribbean Tourism Organization said.
Tourism from other European countries and from Japan, however, has yet to rebound at the same rates as tourism from the United States and China, the statistics show.
"Overseas tourism, the booming consumption market are more rational," the culture and tourism ministry said in a section header in its report on Golden Week travel this year.
In a deal with the country's state-owned tourism company, per the Jakarta Post, Akon City is part of the singer's goals to create a sustainable tourism village.
The tourism unit has an inhouse investment team of 26 people scouring the world for leisure tourism targets including hotel brands, travel agencies and theme parks, he said.
Australia has been strived to boost its tourism, latest data shows that Australian tourism grows fast, but will the coming holidays and sales withstand the pressure from wildfire?
Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi said the bombings should have no impact on tourism, with bookings unaffected and Tunisia on track for a record year with 9 million tourists.
The region's status as "the home of 'Game of Thrones' " was, according to the Tourism Northern Ireland agency, worth about 211 million dollars a year in tourism alone.
According to the Commerce Department's tourism office, the Middle East accounted for 3.5 percent of inbound international tourism in 2016, or about 1.3 million, and none of the countries covered by the ban with the exception of Venezuela is among the top 20 tourism markets coming to the United States.
A collaborative effort by tourism officials and the government to increase tourism may help boost the housing market, as may a growing number of airline flights, Mr. Zephirin said.
Tourism is one of the economic pillars for Indonesia, but the recent turbulence may lead to an unstable in tourists' numbers, and its tourism also gets influenced by seasons.
For regular Mount Agung updates, travelers should also refer to the Bali Tourism Hospitality Task Force, which was established to handle tourism-related services in anticipation of this eruption.
Travel and tourism directly contributed around $23 billion to Indonesia's economy in 2014, or about 3.2 percent of GDP, according to a report from the World Travel & Tourism Council.
"We are trying to ... take advantage of tourism volume to some of these places, but spread the wealth to people that aren't necessarily benefiting from that tourism," Sweeting said.
Earnings from tourism, one of the top sources of foreign exchange, surged 31 percent last year to 157.4 billion shillings ($1.55 billion), the tourism ministry said on January 7.
The Australian government has implemented a national strategy, dubbed Tourism 2020, which aims to boost the tourism market and achieve more than $115 billion in overnight spend by 2020.
The figures were in a joint release from the NDRC and the China National Tourism Administration, in response to guidelines from the state cabinet to reform the tourism industry.
Federal Tourism Minister Steven Ciobo said Qantas would use Perth as a hub for passengers from eastern Australia going to Britain, and the service would boost employment and tourism.
Chinese also traveled more during the holiday, with tourism revenue rising 12.6 percent to 475 billion yuan, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the China National Tourism Administration.
"We want balanced and sustainable tourism so that it can keep being our lead economic activity for many years to come," the region's tourism chief Biel Barcelo told Reuters.
International tourism to South Korea has been bleak in 2017, with arrivals down almost 24% through the first nine months of the year, according to the Korean Tourism Organization.
But "Flights" seeks itself—it's a cabinet of curiosities that is about cabinets of curiosities, a work of cultural tourism about cultural tourism, a series of movements about movement.
The total contribution of travel and tourism to Portugal's gross domestic product reached 17.3 percent, or 33.5 billion euros ($41.1 billion), in 2017, according to the International Tourism Association.
The dynamic is taking place against a backdrop of a very busy market for international tourism, which the World Tourism Organization expects to climb to 1.8 billion by 2030.
The travel and room-booking app is also partnering with the Puerto Rico Tourism Company to promote tourism and let the public know the island is open for business.
In May, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that visitor numbers were rebounding in 213 — although the face of tourism to the Anatolian Peninsula looks decidedly different.
Up to 1 million jobs are being lost every day in the tourism sector as more and more countries lock down, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
An estimated 90 percent of the St. Martin economy depends either directly or indirectly on tourism, said Jénovéfa Eche, who works in the St. Martin tourism office in Paris.
The direct contribution of tourism to Greece's GDP reached 18.3 billion euros in 2017 (US$21.3 billion), and tourism contributed directly to the 10.3 percent of the country's GDP.
Officials with the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Aviation say outside tourism is needed to help "sustain the reconstruction that's going to be necessary," according to The Washington Post.
Orlando's tourism districts sustained minimal damage from the storm, according to Becca Bides, the vice president of communications for Visit Orlando, the official tourism association for the Orlando region.
Domestic tourism during China's biggest holiday generated revenue of 513.9 billion yuan ($76.2 billion), an annual increase of 20173 percent, it said, citing the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Macau's government this week will release a 15-year plan to boost tourism with key objectives including rebranding Macau into a multi-day destination and managing local tourism capacity.
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, one in 10 people are employed in the travel and tourism industry, representing more than 10 percent of the global economy.
By comparison, international tourism arrivals worldwide in 2017 were up 73 percent, representing the strongest result in seven years, figures from the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) show.
Tourism is a vital part of the Thai economy, with the World Bank estimating the Southeast Asian nation generates about 12 percent of its gross domestic product from tourism receipts.
The Dominican Republic is one of the Caribbean's top tourism destinations, with more than 6 million stopover tourists last year, including 2.2 million Americans, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
The Dominican Republic is one of the Caribbean's top tourism destinations, with more than 6 million stopover tourists last year, including 2.2 million Americans, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
She told us how she is leading an effort to develop tourism in her corner of Azuero, training local guides and developing activities on a still-rough rural tourism loop.
"This form of tourism is growing rapidly and is increasingly popular as Western societies age," Dallen Timothy, editor of the Journal of Heritage Tourism, told the site at the time.
Malaysian Tourism, which began promoting medical tourism in Malaysia in 2002, is actively courting more Western tourists booking in for what Asian tourists have been benefitting from for many years.
"The rise of Asia's giants shows that the Asian Tourism Century is becoming a reality," said Tiffany Misrahi, who works on aviation, travel and tourism at the World Economic Forum.
"The Greek tourism sector's performance has exceeded every expectation, hitting a new record for a fourth year," Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura said at an international travel trade show in London.
"What increasingly has been observed is that not only is tourism vulnerable but it's also resilient," said Xiang "Robert" Li, a professor of tourism marketing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Movie software developer Vista Group fell 3.2% and was top loser on the New Zealand benchmark, followed by tourism company Tourism Holdings which declined almost 3% to a week's low.
These countries will be especially impacted by a drop in tourism over the coming months; in countries like Malaysia or Thailand, tourism revenues make up more than 10% of GDP.
Along with rising tourism rates as a whole, demand for wildlife tourism has risen in the past few years, which has translated to more animals being kept in entertainment venues.
Donald P. Hoover, associate director of Fairleigh Dickinson University's International School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, said the leisure and tourism industries would do well to focus on this group.
In 2016 data released earlier this week by the Paris regional tourism board, there was another drop in tourism, with 1.5 million fewer visitors, a 4.7 percent decrease from 2015.
Coronavirus is different from other tourism disruptions in a significant way: The potential loss of tourism revenue and gross domestic product will hurt not only China but also other countries.
The St. Kitts Tourism Authority said that St. Kitts was essentially unharmed and that its Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport, as well as its tourism providers are open for business.
The number of foreign arrivals in Turkey has surged 14.11% in 2019, boosting Turkey's tourism revenues to $34.5 billion, data from Tourism Ministry and Turkish Statistical Institute showed in January.
The protests have caused a sharp drop in tourism: The Hong Kong Tourism Board reported a 43 percent decrease in arrivals in October compared with the same time last year.
"Tourism activities will continue as normal around the country, even though Thai people will be in mourning," Tanes Petsuwan, a deputy governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, told Reuters.
In a report published by the World Tourism Organization last summer, Egypt led tourism growth in the Middle East in 2017, with many tourists coming from Western and Central Europe.
Mike Posner's track, "I Took A Pill In Ibiza," won't be playing in the background of any Ibiza tourism commercials because he says the island's tourism board isn't a fan.
Nicaragua's efforts to develop tourism and attract foreigners from countries such as the United States have paid off in jobs and dollars in recent years -- according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, 2017 saw 274,000 jobs created in the travel and tourism sector, with an expected rise of 4.1% in 303.
Globally, the travel and tourism sector grew 4.6 percent in 2017 and one in every five new jobs created worldwide last year was attributable to tourism, the new WTTC figures showed.
"Colombia, although having a smaller tourism exposure relative to GDP, is heavily reliant on foreign tourists and hence could see a bigger loss of tourism revenue," said the Morgan Stanley note.
The ephemeral trendiness — travel as fast fashion — is part of a structural change in the tourism industry, according to Stanislav Ivanov, professor of tourism economics at Bulgaria's Varna University of Management.
Chinese tourist sites received 2286 million visitors during the Golden Week holiday, and domestic tourism revenue increased to 28 billion yuan ($13 billion), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said Sunday.
The fact that tourism is soaring is well-known—between 1999 and 2016 the number of people opting for a foreign holiday doubled, according to the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
"With this new initiative, we hope to encourage more visitors, which will, in turn, help boost jobs in the tourism industry," said Argentina's minister of tourism Gustavo Santos in a statement.
But Elloumi Rekik said Tunisia is diversifying by promoting cultural tourism, Sahara safari trips and medical tourism packages — giving European patients access to less costly therapeutic and cosmetic treatments in Tunisia.
Iran is the 33rd largest tourism market in the world, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, and the government hopes to attract 20 million tourists a year by 2025.
The World Travel & Tourism Council estimates that travel and tourism contributed 3.2 percent of Indonesia's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014, while the total contribution was around 9.3 percent of GDP.
The latest data from the Hawaii Tourism Authority shows strong international tourism inflows for the first two months of 2017, driven by big demand from visitors in Australia and New Zealand.
The director of Ibiza's Department of Tourism, Vicente Torres, explained in an interview with Pulse yesterday that the island has a "limited capacity" and simply cannot sustain constant increases in tourism.
Shares of cosmetic makers, considered inbound tourism stocks, were also sharply sold, with Shiseido Co falling 6.5 percent and Kose Corp dropping 6.8 percent on worries Chinese tourism demand may fall.
And Nuquí, like the Bahia Solano region just to the north, is also counting on tourism being a big part of its future — it even boasts an eco-tourism themed school.
Domestic tourism has been on the rise in China for years, with the Golden Week period generating more revenue for most tourism-related businesses than any other week of the year.
Mark Watson of the Ethical Tourism group said advocacy tourism can help in raising awareness of the issues but said the impact of people trying to help out locally was debatable.
Everette said the explosion of eco-tourism in the 1970s and 1980s helped change mass travel for the better but there was little emphasis on the people directly affected by tourism.
Tourism has been a key contributor to the country's economy, making up about 85033 percent of the company's gross domestic product last year, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Though Costa Rica's economy has diversified to go well beyond tourism and agriculture, which it once primarily depended on, travel tourism itself still accounts for about 12.5 percent of its GDP.
After announcing its first case last week, Kenya's Secretary for Tourism Najib Balala, said the country's economy would be "hit badly," and that the tourism sector would be the most affected.
"The vision behind USAID's investment in the tourism sector is to promote Timor-Leste's competitiveness as an international tourism destination while preserving its unique environmental and cultural heritage," contract documents say.
There are concerns, however, about the environmental impact of the increase in tourism, impact on quality of life for locals, and whether the tourism boom is a bubble that could burst.
This large membership is also seen at UN industry organizations like the World Tourism Organization, which has some 500 affiliate members from local tourism associations and elsewhere in the private sector.
Foreign arrivals, including tourism and business travelers, in the month declined 1.1% to 2.66 million from 2.69 million in the same month last year, Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) data showed.
This rapid increase of tourists is exactly why sustainable tourism needs attention now, said Taleb Rifai, the secretary general of the World Tourism Organization, the United Nations agency overseeing the initiative.
"It hurts India's image, hurts the India story, hurts tourism, hurts medical tourism," said one official, ruing that fewer than 30 cities had an action plan ready to fight air pollution.
Tourist arrivals in September slid 3 percent from a year earlier and inbound tourism spending plunged 13.6 percent in the first half of 2016, according to the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
With domestic tourism accounting for about 70 percent of Iran's total tourism and Iranians becoming more cautious about spending, the industry is likely to feel economic discomfort for the foreseeable future.
Talk of a potential ban comes just after North Korea's National Tourism Administration revamped its website and launched a new tourism campaign without, it seems, even the slightest hint of irony.
" Other users said Zuckerberg was engaging in "voyeuristic tourism.
The economic toll is mounting: Countries that have relied heavily on Chinese tourism, including Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore, are each expected to lose at least $3 billion in tourism-related revenues, according to an analysis by Animesh Kumar, a travel and tourism director at GlobalData, a research and consulting firm based in London.
"As we move from low to high season in tourism, the deterioration in tourism statistics gets more and more significant," said Deniz Cicek, an economist at Finansbank in a note to clients.
Famed for its white sand beaches and luxury hotels, Mauritius is shifting an economy traditionally focused on sugar, textiles and tourism towards offshore banking, business outsourcing, luxury real estate and medical tourism.
Caretaker Tourism Minister Avedis Guidanian, in the interview published on Monday by Lebanon's English-language Daily Star, complained that negative media reports about Lebanon were harming his country's image and hindering tourism.
Throughout the year, the tourism board will be planning activities on a quarterly basis aimed at educating Chinese tourists on topics such as green tourism, keeping the environment clean and dining etiquette.
BANGKOK, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Thai tourism revenue is forecast at 2.4 trillion baht ($66.12 billion) in 2016, Thailand's tourism minister said on Monday, up from an earlier projection of 2.3 trillion baht.
Now, unsurprisingly, tourism has spiked dramatically, with the UN's World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) reporting that tourist arrivals grew an estimated 21% in 210 – materially above the roughly 4% seen consistently since 2010.
"In the last couple of years there was a boycott of Turkey as a tourism destination but we have seen halal-friendly tourism booming throughout this period," said Ufuk Secgin of halalbooking.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's tourism body has said in a statement that it "strongly opposes any form of sex tourism" as it hopes to welcome a record number of holiday-makers this year.
As Paris tourism struggles to overcome last November's Islamist attacks, the world's most visited city faces a new threat: a wave of protests and further planned strikes, tourism officials warned on Monday.
With the New York City Marathon on Sunday and the holiday season approaching, we asked Christopher Heywood, a senior vice president of NYC & Company, the city's tourism arm, how terrorism affects tourism.
"It definitely does not contribute to an ideal environment for tourism, and our economy heavily depends on it," said Ives Lelevier, the under secretary of tourism for the state of Baja California.
Statistics from the United Nations World Tourism Organization indicate that tourism is responsible for roughly 2500 percent of the world's carbon emissions, though other experts suggest the true figure is nearly double.
His group has partnered with Tourism Cares, a nonprofit, to raise relief and rebuilding assistance from the hotel chains, credit card companies and any other enterprises involved in the Caribbean tourism industry.
But the move to inhibit the flow of American tourism and investment will certainly have an effect on the Cuban economy — as well as the entrepreneurs making livings in the tourism industry.
Puerto Rico "Most of our tourist attractions are operational and good to go," said José Izquierdo, the executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, the government agency in charge of tourism.
"With so much to see and do in Belize, there is no time to waste feeling guilty about work," Karen Bevans, the tourism board&aposs director of tourism, said in a statement.
"This change is intended to address the national security and law enforcement risks associated with birth tourism, including criminal activity associated with the birth tourism industry," one State Department official told Axios.
Tourism is among Africa's fastest-growing sectors and contributed nearly $178 billion, or roughly 8.1 percent, to the continent's gross domestic product last year, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.

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