{"id":55967,"date":"2021-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/?guid=590e9bae856fb2cbdd075b12ac03d36b"},"modified":"2021-11-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:00:00","slug":"covid-pandemic-costs-global-tourism-2-0-trillion-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/covid-pandemic-costs-global-tourism-2-0-trillion-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID pandemic costs global tourism $2.0 trillion in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
The coronavirus pandemic will cost the global tourism sector $2 trillion in lost revenue in 2021, the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said on Monday, describing the sector’s recovery as “fragile” and “slow”.<\/P>
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The forecast from the Madrid-based UNWTO comes as Europe is battling with a surge in cases and as a new heavily mutated Covid-19 variant, dubbed Omicron, spreads across the globe.<\/P>
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The Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted the UNWTO as saying that the global tourism sector already lost $2 trillion in revenues last year due to the pandemic, making it one of the sectors hardest hit by the crisis.<\/P>
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A statement by the UN body stated “despite the recent improvements, uneven vaccination rates around the world and new Covid-19 strains” such as the Delta variant and Omicron “could impact the already slow and fragile recovery.”<\/P>
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UNWTO head Zurab Pololikashvili indicated “it’s a historical crisis in the tourism industry but again tourism has the power to recover quite fast.”<\/P>
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Source: Jordan News Agency<\/P>
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