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Tourism and COVID-19

The Economic Impact of Tourism

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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 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

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 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)

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

Tourism Issues

Overtourism
(The Atlantic 5min)

Is Tourism killing Venice?
(BBC News 3min)

Tourism and the Heritage Curse
(Al Jazeera 25min)

Can Tourism Ruin Cities?
(CityBeautiful 10min)

It is time to end extractive tourismThe pandemic presents us with a great opportunity to do away with the destructive mass tourism industry.

Should You Flush the Toilet Paper? A Flowchart • Mind of a HitchhikerWhen traveling abroad to foreign places: should you flush the toilet paper? A handly flowchart to help you on your world travels.

Voluntourism

Voluntourism: the good and the badUnderstanding the criticisms, possible benefits and statistics of voluntourism and how World Vision ensures the communities it serves are protected from potentially harmful practices.

What's wrong with the 'white savior complex'? – DW – 11/02/2016Two minutes and 23 seconds is all it took for a group of white women in traditional Ugandan dress to cause a stir on social media. But what is wrong with 'voluntourism'? Social change advocate Teddy Ruge explains.

Voluntourism: new book explores how volunteer trips harm rather than help‘Don’t do as we did,’ says Pippa Biddle, who highlights colonial structure of industry where unqualified western tourists pay to volunteer abroad

Voluntourism
(Engineers Without Borders)

The Problem with Voluntourism
(TEDx 13min)

Tourism and Climate Change

Tourism responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, study finds - Carbon BriefWorldwide tourism accounted for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2013, new research finds, making the sector a bigger polluter than the construction industry.

Can the tourism industry survive the climate crisis?From the Solomon Islands to Denali national park, how five communities reliant on tourism are coping as climate change upends their industry

The Glasgow Declaration on Tourism and Climate Change
(UNWTO 3min)

The Glasgow Declaration on Tourism and Climate Change
(UNWTO)

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