{"id":208121,"date":"2019-01-22T18:45:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=208121"},"modified":"2019-01-24T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:42:57","slug":"middle-east-africa-tourism-shows-above-average-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/middle-east-africa-tourism-shows-above-average-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East, Africa tourism shows above-average growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Middle East and Africa tourism industry showed higher-than-average growth last year, the Madrid, Spain-based United Nations World Tourism Organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.unwto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNWTO<\/a>)\u00a0reported this Monday (21).<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East welcomed 64 million tourists in 2018, up 10% from the year before, a \u201csolid result consolidating its 2017 recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Africa saw 67 million travelers, up 7%. Tourist numbers climbed 10% in North Africa \u2013 the Arab portion of the continent \u2013 and 6% in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>International arrivals in Europe amounted to 713 million, up 6%, while Asia and the Pacific saw 343 million arrivals, also up 6%.<\/p>\n<p>The Americas got 217 million international travelers, up 3%. Arrivals were up 4% in North America and 3% in South America, but down 2% in Central America and 2% in the Caribbean. In the latter case, the result is still impacted by September 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria, according to the UNWTO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tourist number goal was brought ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the UNWTO\u2019s World Tourism Barometer, international tourist arrivals amounted to 1.4 billion worldwide in 2018, up 6% from the previous year. The organization wasn\u2019t expecting that mark to come before 2020, \u201cyet the remarkable growth of international arrivals in recent years has brought it two years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization notes that international tourist flows increased by more than the world economy \u2013 which expanded by 3.7% last year. \u201cThe growth of tourism in recent years confirms that the sector is today one of the most powerful drivers of economic growth and development\u201d, UNWTO secretary-general Zurab Pololikashvili was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast of 1.4 billion tourists only by 2020 had been made in 2010, but since then, according to the organization, global economic growth was stronger than expected, air tickets became cheaper, the industry underwent technological changes, new business models emerged and visa issuance became more streamlined around the world, all of which caused activity to pick up faster.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the UNWTO is expecting world tourism to increase by 3% to 4%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-208117\">Mohamed El-Shahed\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International arrivals were up 10% in the Middle East and 7% Africa in 2018. Worldwide tourist flows increased by 6%, the United Nations World Tourism Organization reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":208117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[271,2063,434,33,30322,7029],"class_list":{"0":"post-208121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-middle-east","10":"tag-tourist","11":"tag-travel","12":"tag-turistas-en","13":"tag-unwto"},"wps_subtitle":"International arrivals were up 10% in the Middle East and 7% Africa in 2018. 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