26th January 2024 UN TourismThe United Nations World Tourism Organization has changed its name to UN Tourism.
22nd January 2024 Recovery / UN TourismThere is significant room for recovery across Asia, with Chinese outbound and inbound tourism expected to accelerate.
4th December 2023 Recovery / UN TourismThe global tourism industry could generate $2.26tr by the end of the year, closing in on the amount earned in 2019.
16th October 2023 Food / UN TourismThe United Nations World Tourism Organization is promoting “gastronomy tourism” as a potential way to promote responsible agriculture, protect biodiversity and reduce environmental footprint.
27th September 2023 UN TourismA new green investment strategy is needed to better people, planet and prosperity – that is the message from the United Nations World Tourism Organization on the 43rd annual World Tourism Day, 27 September.
26th September 2023 UN TourismWork has been completed on the development of a new sustainability measurement for tourism.
20th September 2023 Recovery / UN TourismInternational tourism has continued its strong recovery from the pandemic with arrival numbers reaching 84% of pre-pandemic levels between January and July 2023.
23rd June 2023 UN Tourism / WTTCThe World Travel & Tourism Council and the United Nations World Tourism Organization have signed a memorandum of understanding to improve the industry’s transformation.
17th May 2023 Recovery / UN TourismHowever, the majority of UNWTO’s panel of experts agreed that international tourism would not make a full recovery to 2019 levels until at least 2024 or later.
9th May 2023 UN TourismGlobal destinations including New Zealand have the potential to leverage mountains for new tourism opportunities, but a lack of data is impeding a wider understanding of the segment’s challenges.
18th January 2023 Recovery / UN TourismInternational tourism recovered 63% of pre-pandemic levels last year, with Europe and Middle East in the lead but Asia Pacific lagging.
24th November 2022 Recovery / UN TourismGlobal export revenues from tourism could reach US$1.3tr in 2022, although Asia Pacific’s recovery lags.
28th September 2022 Recovery / UN TourismInternational tourism arrivals have reached more than half of pre-pandemic levels but Asia Pacific is lagging.
7th June 2022 Recovery / UN TourismA better-than-expected Q1 prompts the agency to bring forward its forecasts for the recovery.
20th January 2022 Travel / UN TourismThe slowest region to recover will be Asia Pacific, with around 80% of experts surveyed saying it will not return to pre-Covid levels until at least 2024.
27th September 2021 UN TourismThe UNWTO said the impact of Covid-19 on tourism has cost the world economy US$4tr.
3rd June 2021 Survey / UN TourismMore tourism experts have pushed out the prospects of a full recovery until 2024 at the earliest.
1st April 2021 Arrivals / UN TourismThe body lays out two scenarios for international arrivals.
9th March 2021 Border / UN TourismNZ is among a third of countries surveyed to have shut their borders with Asia Pacific implementing the strictest measures.
2nd February 2021 UN TourismGlobal tourism suffered its worst year on record in 2020 with international arrivals falling 74% or one billion people, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
2nd April 2020 Data / UN TourismInternational arrivals will fall by 20%-30% in 2020 compared to last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, says the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
21st January 2020 Arrivals / UN TourismInternational tourism growth slowed to 4% in 2019 – its slowest rate since 2016 – on the back of a cooling global economy, geopolitical tensions and Brexit uncertainty according to the World Tourism Organisation.
5th December 2019 Environment / UN TourismThe tourism industry has been urged to take independent action to reduce global emissions after a new landmark report forecasts the sector’s transport-related carbon emissions will rise 25% between 2016 and 2030.
28th January 2019 Data / UN TourismThe UNWTO expects tourist arrivals in the region to top 363 million in 2019.
11th October 2018 Data / UN TourismDestinations worldwide received 641 million international visitors between January and June – more than forecast by the UNWTO.
27th September 2018 UN TourismIt’s the United Nations’ World Tourism Day, marked every September 27, with this year’s theme being ‘Tourism and the Digital Transformation’.
29th August 2018 Australia / UN TourismNZ tourism is generating spending above the proportion of its visitors but it still lags behind Australia.
28th June 2018 Data / UN TourismInternational tourist arrivals have outstripped forecasts in the first four months of the year with numbers up by 6%.
8th March 2018 UN TourismThe Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism Organization Zurab Pololikashvili’s opening address of the 2018 edition of the ITB Berlin travel trade show.
30th January 2018 UN Tourism / United Nations / United Nations World Tourism OrganisationInternational tourist arrivals grew by a remarkable 7% in 2017 to reach a total of 1,322 million, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer.
15th December 2017 UN TourismDestinations around the world welcomed 1.13 billion international tourists between January and October 2017, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer.
28th November 2017 UN TourismThe World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announces the winners of the UNWTO Ulysses Prize and the UNWTO Ethics Award.
7th November 2017 UN TourismInternational tourist arrivals topped 901 million for the eight months to August 2017, 56 million more than the same period last year, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s latest World Tourism Barometer.
Tourism is today the 3rd largest export industry in the world after chemicals and fuels.
Destinations worldwide welcomed 598m international tourists in the first six months of 2017, some 36m more than in the same period of 2016.
The ‘Travel.Enjoy.Respect’ campaign wants to engage tourists in making the sector a catalyst for positive change.
16th August 2017 UN TourismInternational tourist arrivals hit 1.24bn in 2016, marking the seventh consecutive year of sustained growth in international tourism according to the UNWTO.
28th July 2017 UN TourismInternational tourist arrivals worldwide grew by 6% to 369m in January-April 2017 compared to the same period last year, according to the UNWTO.
18th May 2017 UN Tourism / United Nations World Tourism OrganisationFood tourism offers enormous potential in stimulating world economies according to a new paper from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
13th April 2017 UN / UN Tourism / United Nations / United Nations World Tourism Organisation / University of WaikatoThe University of Waikato has joined The United Nations’ prestigious international network of sustainable tourism observatories.
9th March 2017 ITB Berlin / UN TourismTourism can transform our world and build better understanding in a world living a deficit of tolerance, says UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai says In his address at the opening ceremony of ITB Berlin 2017.
17th January 2017 UN TourismInternational tourist arrivals grew by 3.9% to reach a total of 1,235 million, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer.
