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World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne to attend the virtual meeting of the Regional Commission for Europe (3 June 2021)

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Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Minister of State for Tourism, French Nationals Abroad and Francophonie, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, will attend the virtual meeting of the UNWTO’s Regional Commission for Europe, which will bring together the tourism ministers of the 42 European States.

The ministers will discuss Europe’s gradual return to mobility as the summer season is about to get under way and vaccination campaigns are moving forward, giving us hope for an end to the crisis in the coming months. They will also discuss the UNWTO’s various efforts to support States in the industry’s recovery, such as calls for projects aimed at innovative tourism companies, the dissemination of training content and the creation of a global platform for travel industry jobs.

They will also address the transition to a green tourism economy – the priority they have identified for the organization’s work program in 2022-2023. Mr. Lemoyne will reiterate that the sustainable transformation of tourism is a key aspect of France’s recovery, funded by the State through the Sustainable Tourism Fund and the “Avenir Montagnes” plan [to accelerate the ecological transition of tourism in the country’s mountain ranges].

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According to the first UNWTO World Tourism Barometer of the year,  international tourism ended 2023 at 88% of pre-pandemic levels , with an estimated 1.3 billion international arrivals .  The unleashing of remaining pent-up demand, increased air connectivity, and a stronger recovery of Asian markets and destinations, are expected to underpin a full recovery by the end of 2024 (UNWTO Tourism Barometer January 2024 – Press Release) .

An estimated 1286 million international tourists (overnight visitors) were recorded around the world in 2023, an increase of 34% over 2022. International tourism recovered 88% of pre-pandemic levels, supported by strong pent-up demand (UNWTO Tourism Barometer January 2024-Excerpt) .

International tourism is expected to fully recover pre-pandemic levels in 2024, with initial estimates pointing to 2% growth above 2019 levels. This central forecast by UNWTO remains subject to the pace of recovery in Asia and to the evolution of existing economic and geopolitical downside risks (UNWTO Tourism Barometer January 2024 – Press Release) .  

Asia and the Pacific reached 65% of pre-pandemic levels, with a gradual recovery since the start of 2023 following the reopening of several markets and destinations. However, performance among subregions were mixed, with South Asia recovering 87% of pre-pandemic levels and North-East Asia, 55% (UNWTO Tourism Barometer January 2024-Excerpt) .

There is still significant room for recovery across Asia. The recent reopening of several source markets and destinations is expected to boost recovery in the region and globally (UNWTO Tourism Barometer January 2024- Excerpt) .

Read more on the UNWTO Tourism Barometer (January 2024 excerpt) here .

About the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer

The UNWTO World Tourism Barometer is a publication of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) that monitors short-term tourism trends regularly to provide global tourism stakeholders with up-to-date analysis of international tourism. The information is updated several times a year and includes an analysis of the latest data on tourism destinations (inbound tourism) and source markets (outbound tourism). The Barometer also includes three times a year Confidence Index based on the UNWTO Panel of Tourism Experts survey, which provides an evaluation of recent performance and short-term prospects for international tourism.

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Tourism in France: exceptional results in 2022

In a trend keynote published in late February, Atout France analyses the latest figures of tourism in France. These results show highly positive results for the tourism year 2022 with revenues due to international tourism reaching about 58 billion euros, more than 2019.

The World Trade Organization (WTO), had foreseen the trend as early as January, predicting that arrivals of international tourists in major tourism reception countries could reach in 2022 80% to 95% of their pre-pandemic levels. But France has done better, overpassing these figures in 2019 !

Strong appetite for France

Reaching a total result of 58 billion euros in revenues in 2022 , i.e. a 1.2 billion increase compared to 2019, the figures of tourism in France truly reached a record . Indeed, “ revenues in value benefit from a price effect ” because of inflation, an “ pull results ”. Furthermore, Atout France, the agency for tourism development in France, thinks that Google search data analysis (in relation with projects of travels to France) confirms that “ the appetite of international clients for France ”.

However, these good results hide differences between various tourist markets. And the good performances from North America and pickup in the UK, and the existence of loyal clients such as Belgians, Germans or Spanish, balance in part the still-eroded situation in Asia. Atout France indeed notes that flows from Asia, and China and Japan in particular, are still weak, even though a light increase of these flows in late year is registered. Likewise, India, South Korea and Australia showed growth trends. In December only, Israel, Spain, Canada and Mexico generated strong changes towards France.

Paris and French cities

All French regions seem to benefit from this pickup of attractiveness , but, according to Atout France, Paris was lagging in the pickup trend after being impacted by the Covid crisis before “ growing again thanks to international clients and a faster than anticipated pickup of clients ”. To the point that, in December, the hotel occupation rate was higher than the 2019 figures.

Among the other French regions raising the enthusiasm of international tourists, it should be noted that larger urban hubs attract the most. Besides Paris and its region, more French hubs (excluding the mountain and beaches regions) register a hotel occupation rate of more than 17%. In December, three regions benefit from a truly seductive trend: the Grand Est, Occitanie and Île-de-France regions, which registered the best performances in terms of occupation rate compared to 2019.

Nice prospects despite a special and competitive context

Data about forecasted rates in the hotel industry and air transports, that Atout France already has, lead to predicting a first quarter in 2023 with optimism, despite a still-difficult context both on the economic and geopolitical aspect, and the competition aspect.

At national scale, says the agency, the booking rate in hotels is 7 points ahead or the February to April period, compared to 2022. Indeed, order intakes in air transport industry tend to increase month after month. But Atout France says that “ even though French destinations were usually less impacted by the crisis than our closest neighbours ”, the main competitor of France in terms of tourism, Spain, reached a leadership position in Europe in 2022.

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Unwto and fdi intelligence report highlights global tourism investment surge with united tourism llc’s strategic expansion.

Global tourism investment surges in 2023, with United Tourism LLC playing a significant role in acquiring cultural assets and expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific.

LONDON; UK, Feb. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Previously, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) partnered with the fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times jointly released the 2023 Global Tourism Investment Report. The report shows that from 2022, as the global tourism industry recovers, both the global tourism reception and investment in the tourism industry have been improving.

Data shows that in 2022, the total number of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) projects in the global tourism industry increased from 286 in 2021 to 352, a year-over-year increase of 23%. The number of new jobs created by investment in the tourism sector is also growing. In 2022, the global tourism industry is expected to add about 36,400 new jobs from FDI, also a 23% increase compared to the previous year.

In the five years from 2018 to 2022, among the top ten investment enterprises in the global tourism industry, four are from Europe, three from North America, and three from the Asia-Pacific region. The leading global tourism investor is the UK’s Selina, which invested in a total of 90 FDI projects from 2018 to 2022. The second-ranked French Accor Group invested in 79 projects. Besides these top ten investment enterprises, the recovery of the global tourism market has also allowed more investment companies to see opportunities, starting the globalization layout of tourism assets.

Take United Tourism LLC, established in 2021, as an example. As a group enterprise spanning Asia, Europe, and America, it has established more than 50 offices worldwide, with over 500 partners covering aviation, hotels, asset management, the internet, and other fields, including more than 20 Fortune 500 companies, maintaining long-term cooperation with tourism bureaus of more than 30 countries. Recognizing the development potential of the global cultural tourism industry and the value of quality cultural tourism assets, in recent years, United Tourism LLC has continued to acquire or invest in high-quality assets through its wholly-owned subsidiary — Mass United Invest Ltd, improving its industrial chain layout. Up to now, it has accumulated cooperation with 180 cultural tourism IPs, participated in 30 asset restructurings, successfully returned 28 groups of assets to profitability, completed the construction of data for 200 cultural tourism RWA, and the assets on the blockchain have reached 500 million US dollars.

The report also shows that between 2018 and 2022, the Asia-Pacific region absorbed a total of 517 new FDI projects in tourism. The Asia-Pacific is also a key area where United Tourism LLC focuses its efforts. In 2023 alone, the group reached asset cooperation with the ancient city of Galle in Sri Lanka and arranged industries such as hotels and seaplanes on three islands including Cocoa Island and Digurah Island in the Maldives. In the future, it will continue to explore valuable cultural and tourism assets worldwide and create unique experiences and values for global travelers through international and diversified services.

During the period from 2018 to 2022, the new FDI projects in the hotel accommodation and tourism sector accounted for two-thirds of the entire tourism industry cluster. In 2022, the total number of FDI projects in the hotel and tourism sector increased by 25% year-over-year. As an important part of the tourism industry, hotels are directly related to the travel experience of tourists; hence, the hotel sector is also a key focus of United Tourism LLC’s layout. Apart from the acquisition of the Residensea Hotel on Digurah Island in the Maldives mentioned above, United Tourism LLC also successfully invested 8.55 million US dollars to become the second-largest shareholder of Sri Lanka’s leading hotel brand — Royal Mosvold Villa hotel.

Benefiting from policy-driven and the release of travel demand, the global tourism industry has experienced an explosive recovery, and more and more practitioners who left the industry have returned, showing the industry’s strong resilience. At the same time, technological innovation and the development of new technologies have made the innovation of the tourism industry more visible to people, and the value of tourism assets has become increasingly prominent, which has also attracted more capital and practitioners. Professional tourism companies like United Tourism LLC provide new momentum for the high-quality development of the tourism industry and also explore new development paths for the industry.

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The tourism sector is highly vulnerable to climate change and at the same time contributes to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), which cause global warming. Accelerating climate action in tourism is therefore of utmost importance for the resilience of the sector. Climate action is understood as the efforts to measure and reduce GHG emissions and strengthen adaptive capacity to climate induced impacts. 1

There is a growing consensus among tourism stakeholders as to how the future resilience of tourism will depend on the sector’s ability to embrace a low carbon pathway and cut emissions by 50% by 2030

According to UN Tourism/ITF latest research , released in December 2019 at UNFCCC COP25, CO 2 emissions from tourism are forecasted to increase by 25% by 2030 from 2016 levels, against the current ambition scenario. The report provides insights into the evolution of tourism demand across the different global regions from 2016 to 2030 and presents transport-related CO2 emissions for the period. In 2016, transport-related emissions from tourism contributed to 5% of all man-made emissions and were set to increase to 5,3% by 2030 against a current ambition scenario. 

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Therefore, the need to scale up climate action in tourism is of utmost importance, especially even more now that the sector has recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, with 2023 reaching 88% levels of the international tourist arrivals in 2019. The cost of inaction with regards to climate will be in the long run larger than the cost of any other crisis.

UN Tourism is committed to accelerate progress towards low carbon tourism development and the contribution of the sector to international climate goals by: 

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• Accelerating the decarbonization of tourism operations
• Engaging the tourism sector in adaptation and carbon removal

In order to support the tourism stakeholders to advance on measuring their GHG emissions, in March 2023, UN Tourism published the report on CLIMATE ACTION IN TOURISM SECTOR: AN OVERVIEW OF METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS TO MEASURE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS . The report was developed with support from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection of Germany (BMU) and released in collaboration with UN Climate Change (UNFCCC).   Read the full report here .

In order to support National Tourism Administrations, in March 2024 UN Tourism launched the Policy Guidance with support from the UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) and technical support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The  Policy Guidance has been developed to assist governmental agencies dedicated to tourism in the development of tourism climate action policies and initiatives to support the low-carbon transition for tourism. This policy guidance provides examples of good practice from around the world to illustrate how NTAs can implement climate-enabling policy and other initiatives as well as benefit from climate initiatives in other sectors. The policy guidance is complemented by a Glasgow Declaration signatory Pack for NTAs which provides practical recommendations on how to get started with climate action.

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The Glasgow Declaration aims to act as a catalyst for increased urgency about the need to accelerate climate action in tourism and to secure strong actions and commitment.

The signatories of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism are committing to act now and accelerate climate action to support the global goals of cutting emissions by at least a half over the next decade and reach Net Zero emissions as soon as possible before 2050.  Signatories of the Glasgow Declaration are developing climate plans aligned with  5 pathways : measure, decarbonize, regenerate, collaborate, finance, and reporting progress on an annual basis.

UN Tourism outlined the collective progress with the first Glasgow Declaration Implementation Report (2023) .The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism Implementation Report 2023 presents the results of a systematic review of all progress updates received from signatories during the first reporting exercise conducted between January and June 2023 (over 400 updates), which in many cases include the submission of a Climate Action Plan. The report represents a first-of-its-kind picture of the rapidly developing engagement of the tourism sector with the challenges of climate action.

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