The Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization for the UN Zarab Pololikashvili believes that the global tourist sphere will return to volumes that were recorded before the pandemic, not earlier than 2023, the Secretary General of Tourism Organization in the UN Zurab Pololikashvili said, reports TASS.
According to him, the pandemic reduced the number of tourists around the world by a billion people to a 30-year-old minimum.
“The group of Experts WTOON predicts a very positive asylum due to high deferred in demand for travel, in the second and third quarters of 2022. At the moment, we are seeing a small restoration in the regions of southern Europe, Central America and the Caribbean,” Pololikashvili said.
He also added that at least 45% of the surveyed experts, believe that the 2019 indicators the international tourist sphere will be able to return no earlier than in 2024 or even later, while 43% of specialists are confident that this will happen in 2023 .
2020 has become the worst for world tourism in the entire history of such statistics. The number of tourists leaving abroad decreased by 1 billion compared with 2019, when this figure reached 1.5 billion