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Asia leads world tourism recovery

World tourism rebounded strongly this year from the global financial crisis, led by Asia and the Middle East, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said Friday.

Foreign tourists visit a Sri Lankan museum adjacent to the historic Temple of the Tooth in the island's central town of Kandy in August 2010. World tourism rebounded strongly this year from the global financial crisis, led by Asia and the Middle East, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has said.

But the Madrid-based body also urged caution, noting that some major developed nations have not yet fully emerged from the economic doldrums.

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  • Zoro

    Discussion 4 : 05/09/2010 at 04:02 AM4

    Here are the numers you can see that Thailand is at the end whit only 14%. All the other contries have done much better.

    Results from Sri Lanka (+49%), Japan (+36%), Vietnam (+35%), Myanmar (+35%), Hong Kong (China) (+23%), Macao (China) (+23%), Singapore (+23%), Fiji (+22%) and the Maldives (+21%). Thailand (+14%) posted encouraging results in spite of the political unrest early this year. Asia is currently the second most visited region in the world,- with 181 million international tourist arrivals (21% of world total) and international tourism receipts of US$ 204 billion (24% of world total) in 2009.

  • suthipong

    Discussion 3 : 04/09/2010 at 10:52 AM3

    Where is Thailand?

  • frequent flier

    Discussion 2 : 04/09/2010 at 09:44 AM2

    given that tourism in thailand accounts for 7.1% of GDP (up from 6%), i'm not sure 'languishing' is the right word (#1). And flying through Bangkok is one of the few options of easily getting to Cambodia from overseas (just look at how the airlines, TG and PG, tiemtheir flights). I imagine there is a spin off here from the 'spectacular' rise in tourism to Cambodia. There isnt enough there to keep a western tourist or singapore shopper occupied (yet??).

    But i detect signs that they may well kill the goose that lays the golden egg with their greed now that they have attracted the tourists they seek.

  • James

    Discussion 1 : 04/09/2010 at 12:38 AM1

    So far Cambodia's tourism sector is up as neighbors like Thailand and other countries in the region are languishing. Some 1,423,505 tourists entered the Kingdom of Wonder according to the kingdom's Ministry statistics for the past six months from this year to the end of July, up an annualised 13.85 percent and the arrivals keep mounting up++++.

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