Global Tourism Forecasts to the Year 2000 and Beyond, Volume 6 – Middle East
Included in successive World Tourism Organization (WTO) General Programmes of Work has been a study programme on tourism forecasts started in 1988/ 89. The general objectives of this study programme are specified as: ·Identification of major trends in tourism supply and demand worldwide and by region; ·Analysis of their impact on the various sectors of tourism trade; ·Implications for policy making and relevant strategies. Phase 1 of the project, named Global Tourism Forecasts to the Year 2000 and Beyond, and conducted in 1990, resulted in a discussion paper highlighting the major issues in tourism development, particularly the qualitative aspects which shape the way tourism grows. The findings were presented at the WTO Executive Council meeting in December 1990 in Goa, India, as well as at technical seminars held subsequently in association with regional commission meetings and the Organization’s General Assembly in September/ October 1991 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The feedback obtained during this programme of discussion and debate on the Phase 1 findings assisted in the design of Phase 2 work, which started in 1992 and was completed in 1993.