PARIS: Global tourism is roaring back to life despite Covid travel headaches and the effects of the war in Ukraine, but it has yet to return to its pre-pandemic health.
International tourist arrivals worldwide have more than doubled, up 130% in January 2022 on the same period last year, according to the latest UN World Tourism Organization figures.
Travellers are regaining confidence, and Europe and the Americas are leading the resurgence.
Worldwide, there have been 18 million additional visitors, the UNWTO said, “equivalent to the total increase recorded over the whole of 2021”.
In 2019, global tourism revenues reached $1.48 trillion. That figure dropped by almost two thirds due to…
