World Directory of Documentation Resources and Systems for the Travel and Tourism Sector. World Tourism Organization, Capitan Haya 42, 28020 Madrid, Spain. 1991. 200p. $30

1993 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-71
Keyword(s):  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization

Tourism to the Year 2000 (English version)

1992 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Global Growth

This document summarizes a study entitled Tourism to the Year 2000: Qualitative Aspects Affecting Global Growth – A Discussion Paper commissioned by the World Tourism Organization in 1990. The study is conceived as a discussion paper, to provide an overview of factors affecting long term development of tourism worldwide, and in the different regions, and to identify changes in the trends of demand, tourism plant and in products and services generated. The final result of the study will provide policymakers in the travel and tourism sector with a series of scenarios contemplating various development patterns and alternative strategies to cope with them.

scholarly journals Online resources of the World Tourism Organization: fostering knowledge and raising awareness in society during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kozińska
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Website Evaluation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Interactive Tools ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Core Mission ◽  
Tourism Organization

The purpose of the article is to explore and describe the resources made available by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss their role in fostering knowledge and promoting awareness in society. The resources are examined using a conceptual model of website evaluation proposed by Li and Wang (2010), which has been adapted to be applicable to the organizational context of UNWTO. The findings show that the UNWTO website resources can be divided into two categories: resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic, e.g. information about existing special groups, and resources connected with the core mission of the UNWTO, e.g. important events from before the pandemic or the organization’s main goals. There are new interactive tools, developed specifically in relation to the pandemic, with relevant data for those involved or interested in the tourism sector. The resources are freely available, easily accessible, abundant, varied and highly informative. The UNWTO website is a gateway to knowledge, providing information about, reasons for and effects of relevant actions of the organization, e.g. raising awareness of the importance of both the pandemic problem but also tourism itself, securing considerable funding for the tourism sector by making world leaders aware of the facts and the importance of tourism, or promoting safe travel measures and encouraging actions aimed at accelerating the recovery of the tourism sector.

scholarly journals TOURISM SECTOR IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
pp. 121-135
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Development Perspective

Basic characteristics of contemporary tourism development of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its administrative-political organization units are essentially linked to still insufficient infrastructure and legislative-institutional tourism organization. Regardless of the fact that in most development strategies of all administrative and political-organizational units in Bosnia and Herzegovina tourism is recognized as one of the basic strategies, the development level of tourism industry towards all indicators is significantly lagging behind at the level of the entire European tourism market. According to data from the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Bosnia and Herzegovina is only 113 out of total of 136 countries, according to tourism traffic, out of a record number of 1,235 billion. Of international tourists’ arrivals, which were taken worldwide in 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina has averaged less than 0.1%. The total number of tourist arrivals was around 1.149 million in 2016, of which international arrivals accounted for about 62.6%, while the remaining 37.4% were domestic arrivals. The total number of nights spent in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the year 2016 was 2,377 million. In relation to the above mentioned indicators, positive trends in the number of tourists have increased in the past 10 years with an average annual rate of about 2.5%. These data indicate that Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the improvement of institutional and infrastructure capacities, should significantly improve the overall tourism traffic and achieve a significantly better position within the regional European market in the next ten year period.

scholarly journals Towards Smarter Management of Overtourism in Historic Centres Through Visitor-Flow Monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikel Zubiaga ◽  
Jose Luis Izkara ◽  
Alessandra Gandini ◽  
Itziar Alonso ◽  
Unai Saralegui
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Intelligent Support ◽  
Flow Monitoring ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
Tourism Flows

Historic centres are highly regarded destinations for watching and even participating in diverse and unique forms of cultural expression. Cultural tourism, according to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), is an important and consolidated tourism sector and its strong growth is expected to continue over the coming years. Tourism, the much dreamt of redeemer for historic centres, also represents one of the main threats to heritage conservation: visitors can dynamize an economy, yet the rapid growth of tourism often has negative effects on both built heritage and the lives of local inhabitants. Knowledge of occupancy levels and flows of visiting tourists is key to the efficient management of tourism; the new technologies—the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and geographic information systems (GIS)—when combined in interconnected networks represent a qualitative leap forward, compared to traditional methods of estimating locations and flows. A methodology is described in this paper for the management of tourism flows that is designed to promote sustainable tourism in historic centres through intelligent support mechanisms. As part of the Smart Heritage City (SHCITY) project, a collection system for visitors is developed. Following data collection via monitoring equipment, the analysis of a set of quantitative indicators yields information that can then be used to analyse visitor flows; enabling city managers to make management decisions when the tourism-carrying capacity is exceeded and gives way to overtourism.

The Contribution of European Structural Funds to the Development of the Rural Tourism Infrastructure of Romania’s South West Oltenia Development Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijana Cristina Smarandache (Păsătoiu) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Programming Framework ◽  
South West ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Funds Allocation ◽  
Tourism Organization

The strategic role of tourism sector and its considerable contribution to economic development, employment, social and environmental sustainability is acknowledged by all decision-making bodies, from world wide tourism associations (World Tourism Organization – WTO) to national, regional and local communities. The current article analyses the direct contribution of European structural funds on the development of tourism infrastructure in South West Oltenia, one of the development regions of Romania, over the past 15 years. The data used for the research covers the pre-accession funds allocation (SAPARD Programme), the investments in tourism infrastructure from 2007–2013 financial programming framework as well as the current 2014–2020 programming framework – selected projects. The main conclusion that emerges form the research is that European structural funds had greatly contributed to the development of rural tourism infrastructure both in terms of quantity as well as in quality.

The Americas

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Raphael Raymond Bar-On
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Data ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization

The Americas form the second largest destination region in international tourism. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) reported 116 million tourist arrivals (excluding day-visits) in this Region in 1996, 4.8% above 1995, with Receipts from international tourism totalling US$107 billion, 6.4% above 1995 (in current US$ and excluding International Fares, including receipts from day-visitors). Tourist Arrivals are presented for the 51 countries and Cruise Passengers (by Sub-Regions) and Receipts for the Top Ten American earners, also estimates of employment in travel and tourism and forecasts to 2020. Preliminary data for 1997 are also presented.

Europe

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-411
Author(s):  
Raphael Raymond Bar-On
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization

Europe leads the world in international tourism. In 1996 the World Tourism Organization reported 351 million tourist arrivals (excluding day-visitors) in this Region, 4.6% above 1995, with Receipts from international tourism totalling US$217 billion, also 4.6% above 1995 (in current US$ and excluding International Fares, including receipts from day-visitors). Tourist Arrivals are presented for the 47 countries (by Sub-Regions) and Receipts and Expenditures for the Top Ten European earners, with the World Travel and Tourism Council's estimates of the economic impact of travel and tourism and employment in this ‘industry’.

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