Tourism
Pre-COVID, the tourism industry was one of the world's largest:
Total global tourist arrivals reached nearly 11.9 billion in 2017 – that's 1.6 times as many as the total global population;
Global tourist revenue amounted USD 8.9 trillion, around 10.3% of GDP in 2019;
1 in 10 jobs around the world were in tourism equalling 330 million jobs.
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)
Countries Most Reliant on Tourism (VisualCapitalist 2020)
International Tourism down 70% in 2020
(UNWTO Tourism Barometer)
Tourism Competitiveness Report: Country Profiles
(WTTO)
Global Travel Market Study (Oxford Economics-Trip Advisor)
FlightRadar24 - Track flights around the world
Should you flush the toilet paper? - Infographic and map (MindOfAHitchhiker)
Voluntourism: new book explores how volunteer trips harm rather than help (The Guardian)