international visitor spending
Travel & Tourism Injected €215BN Into Italy’s Economy
The World Travel & Tourism Council | May 6, 2024
Employment and international visitor spend breaks all records Milan, Italy: The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) 2024 Economic Impact Research (EIR) has revealed Italy’s Travel & Tourism sector contributed €215BN, representing 10.5% of Italy’s total economic output last year, underscoring the sector’s prominence as a backbone of the Italian economy. The sector also proved a significant source of employment in 2023, breaking all records generating nearly 185,000 new jobs, raising the total to 2.97MN nationwide, representing one in every eight jobs across the country. The resurgence of international visitors to It...
Visitors Flock to UK to Join Celebrations as the Queen Celebrates 70 Years on the Throne
WTTC | June 2, 2022
Total number of UK Travel & Tourism jobs has risen 49% since the Golden Jubilee 20 years ago London, UK: According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) visitors from overseas are pouring into the UK to join the celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. As the UK gears up to celebrate, new data from WTTC’s partner ForwardKeys shows the number of arriving tourists from key overseas markets and leading Commonwealth countries, such as Singapore, Australia and Canada are all up this week compared to last week by 19%, 6% and 2% respectively. Indeed, the UK Travel & Tourism sector has gone from str...
International Visitor Spending in the United States: September 2015
The National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) | November 16, 2015
International visitors injected, on average, $606 million a day into U.S. economy in September The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced that international visitors spent an estimated $18.2 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States during the month of September, an ever-so-slight increase of less than 1 percent when compared to September 2014 and only the third time this year in which monthly spending was higher than last year. Were it not for markedly lower passenger fare exports - largely a function of declining fuel prices and thus lower fares - total travel and tourism exports for Septem...
