MADRID: World tourism surged in July, thanks to the launch of vaccination and fewer travel restrictions, but the number of tourists is still far from the pre-pandemic level, the UN tourism body said Monday.
About 54 million tourists crossed the international border in July, the highest number since April 2020, in the early months of the Coronavirus crisis, the world tourism organization said in a statement.
Which represents a 58 percent increase compared to the recorded level in July 2020, but still fell 67 percent of 164 million recorded in July 2019.
“This increase is supported by the many international goals, mostly Europe and America …
coupled with the progress made In the “Covid-19 vaccine roll-out” contributing “gradually restoring safe mobility in Europe and other parts of the world,” he said.
“However, 2021 continues to be a challenging year for global tourism, with international arrival fell 80 percent in January-July compared to 2019,” said the organization based in Madrid.
In the first seven months of this year, Asia and the Pacific continued to see the steep steep decline, with a 95 percent decline in international arrival, followed by the Middle East where numbers fell 82 percent, Europe and Africa, which registered 77 percent, and the United States that sustained fell 68 percent.
Only a few small islands in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, along with several small European goals restored and counted close arrivals, or even higher, rather than pre-pandemic levels.
Spain, which before Pandemic is the second most popular tourist destination in the world, on Monday that it welcomed 15 million tourists in the first eight months of this year, a 4.2 percent decline from the same period last year, said the National Statistics Institute.
Data gives doubts about the objectives set by the Spanish government to attract around 45 million foreign visitors this year, about half the number of 2019.
“Actual tourism restart and its benefits, remains in inconsistent regulations and regulations and uniformless vaccination rates continue to affect Trust in the journey, “Head of Zurab Pololikashvili in the statement.
The UN body said that expecting to see “rebound” in 2022 even though global tourism was not expected to reach the pre-pandemic level of up to 2023 or 2024.
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