Tourism & Sport
Tourism and COVID-19
WTTC Economic Impact Reports:
Following a loss of almost US$4.9 trillion in 2020 (-50.4% decline), Travel & Tourism's contribution to GDP increased by US$1 trillion (+21.7% rise) in 2021.
In 2019, the Travel & Tourism sector contributed 10.3% to global GDP; a share which decreased to 5.3% in 2020 due to ongoing restrictions to mobility. 2021 saw the share increasing to 6.1%.
In 2020, 62 million jobs were lost, representing a drop of 18.6%, leaving just 271 million employed across the sector globally, compared to 333 million in 2019. 18.2 million jobs were recovered in 2021, representing an increase of 6.7% year-on-year.
WTTC Travel & Tourism Impact 2019
WTTC Travel & Tourism Impact 2020
WTTC Travel & Tourism Impact 2021
UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, January 2022
Will global tourism survive the COVID Crisis? (Al Jazeera, 25min)
2020 Worst year on record for tourism
Unprecedented Impact from COVID-19
2021 International Tourist Arrivals
International Tourist Arrivals by Month (2019-2021)
International Tourist Arrivals and Tourism Receipts 2000-2021
Travel and Tourism Contributions to GDP, 2019 (Knoema.com)
The Growth of the Tourism Industry (pre-COVID)
Tourism through History
(UNWTO 5min)
The History of Tourism
(TourismTeacher.com 15min)
The Changing Face of Tourism
(The Economist 2min)
Package Tourism
(TourismTeacher.com 8min)
Where do people travel and why? Tourism Arrivals, Tourism Receipts, and Reasons for Travel
Tourism Arrivals, 2019, All Countries
Data, World Bank
Tourism Receipts, 2019, All Countries
Data, World Bank
18 Different Types of Tourism
Article - TheHolidayStory.com
Classifying Tourism
Tabe - GeographyFieldwork.com
Niche Tourism
TourismTeacher - 6min
25 Greatest Natural Wonders
Touropia - 35min
30 Greatest Cultural Wonders
Touropia - 42min
Who travels and why?
OECD Household Disposable Income
The Countries With the Most (and Least) Paid Vacation Time, Mapped
Article + Map, Mental Floss
The Henley Passport Index
Check your country's passport freedom
High-Yield Tourism Market Segments
How the industry views tourism consumers
Ontario's Southwest 7:37
The Economic Impact of Tourism
Tourism Arrivals, 2016
(OurWorldInData)
Tourism Departures per 1,000, 2017 (OurWorldInData)
Travel & Tourism Global Impact 2020 (2019 Data) (WTTC)
Travel & Tourism Top 20 Countries in GDP, 2019 (WTTC)
Tourist Spending, 2018 (HowMuch.net)
Tourism Dependence, 2017 (HowMuch.net)
International Tourism down 70% in 2020
(UNWTO Tourism Barometer)
FlightRadar24 - Track flights around the world
Tourism Competitiveness Report: Country Profiles
(WTTO)
Global Travel Market Study (Oxford Economics-Trip Advisor)
International sporting events
International sporting events like the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup are huge for tourism. Purists are all about the game however, like any big event, there is a lot of geography to unpack outside of the day-to-day matches. The Digital Atlas Project has combed the many media outlets to curate an ever-growing list of articles about the FIFA World Cup in Qatar (2022) that take you beyond the hype of the game itself. Open the list to the right to learn more.
FIFA WORLD CUP COVERAGE
VISIT QATAR: An immersive tour of the FIFA World Cup 2022 host nation Al Jazeera
Mapped: The 32 Teams Playing in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Visual Capitalist 19.11.22
How Qatar’s riches touch millions of UK Lives BBC News 24.11.22
The World Cup In Qatar Is a Climate Catastrophe Scientific American 23.11.22
MoneyWatch: Economics of the World Cup as Qatar looks to boost tourism CBS News (VID: 5min) 22.11.22
Why is Qatar 2022 controversial? BBC Sport 18.11.22
The Qatar World Cup is about to shatter colonial myths Al Jazeera 18.11.22
'Sportswashing' highlights long list of concerns heading into Qatar World Cup CBC Sport 16.11.22
Qatar World Cup the most expensive of all time DW 16.11.22
How has Qatar treated foreign workers? BBC News 9.11.22
Exclusive: Thousands of workers evicted in Qatar's capital ahead of World Cup Reuters 28.10.22
Hosting the FIFA World Cup brings benefits. But not as many as politicians claim The Conversation 22.09.22
The cost of Hosting the Olympics
(2022 BBC - 3:19)
Why hosting the Olympics isn't worth it anymore
(Business Insider - 5min)
2016 Olympics - What Rio doesn't want the world to see
(Vox - 9min)
Why are the 2022 Winter Olympics so controversial?
(PBS Newshour - 6:14)
The costly Problem of Leftover Stadiums
(NBC News - 3:16)
How the Olympics became so expensive to host cities
(CNBC - 18min)
The Reality of Brazil's Olympic tourism
(CGTN - 2min)
"Slum Tourism" in Rio's Favelas
(France24 - 1:40)
Tourism Issues
Overtourism
(The Atlantic 5min)
Is Tourism killing Venice?
(BBC News 3min)
Crowded Out: The Story of Overtourism
(ResponsibleTravel 23min)
Tourism and the Heritage Curse
(Al Jazeera 25min)
Can Tourism Ruin Cities?
(CityBeautiful 10min)
How ‘trashy’ tourism threatens world-famous destinations
(Global News 3min)
Tourism Dependency: Tourism and the Resource Curse
Tourism's Invisible Burden
The Travel Foundation - 1:55
Toxic Tourism:
The Unwelcome Impact
Roundtable - 3:19
Countries Most Reliant on Tourism
Infrographic - VisualCapitalist 2020
Tourism as a % of Exports
Data - World Bank
Voluntourism
Voluntourism
(Engineers Without Borders)
The Problem with Voluntourism
(TEDx 13min)
Tourism and Climate Change
The Glasgow Declaration on Tourism and Climate Change
(UNWTO 3min)
The Glasgow Declaration on Tourism and Climate Change
(UNWTO)
Sustainable Tourism and Community-based Tourism
Why sustainable tourism?
The Tourism Foundation - 4min
Sustainable Tourism
Sustaining Tourism - 2min
The Brutally Honest Sustainable Tourism Video
ReThinking Tourism - 5:43
What is sustainable tourism? Why sustainable tourism management is so important
TourismTeacher - 9:15
What is Responsible Tourism?
TourismTeacher - 13min
Can Tribal Cultures and Communities benefit from Tourism?
Article - Responsible Travel
What is Community-based Tourism?
Article - Treehugger
Community-based tourism
Visit places you won’t find on Google and have a positive impact on local communities.
Article - Intrepid