International tourism set to fall by 70 percent amid coronavirus: UN Tourism Org
International tourism is set to fall by 70 percent this year, marking the sector’s biggest slump since records began in the 1950s, United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili told newspaper Handelsblatt.
He said this prediction for the coronavirus-hit sector was based on the assumption that countries around the world would gradually open their borders from August.
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