World tourism development trend 800 words

With the development of the world economy and the improvement of people's living standards, tourism has become one of the main choices for people's leisure and vacation. The development of tourism not only provides a lot of employment opportunities for many countries, but also brings them rich foreign exchange income. Therefore, more and more governments around the world attach importance to tourism.

According to the statistics of the annual report released by the World Tourism Organization at the beginning of this year, the number of inbound tourists from all countries and regions in the world reached 7150,000 in 2002, a record high. Among them, the number of inbound tourists in Europe still ranks first in the world, 4 1, 1 billion, accounting for 57.5% of the world tourism market. In recent years, tourism in Asia has developed vigorously and has become one of the most prosperous regions in the world. In 2002, the number of international tourists in the Asia-Pacific region reached 1.3 1 billion, second only to Europe. The United States is also a hot spot for world tourism. The number of inbound tourists in 2002 was 1.2 1 100 million. Africa's ancient civilization and primitive scenery have also begun to attract tourists' attention. Last year, the number of inbound tourists reached 2,465,438+million.

Statistics released by the World Tourism Organization show that France is still the largest tourist country in the world. In 2002, the number of foreign tourists received by France broke the historical record, reaching 76.7 million, accounting for 10.7% of the world tourism market. Followed by Spain, the United States and Italy, the number of tourists is 5 1.3 million, 45.4 million and 39.5 million respectively. China's long history, beautiful scenery, profound culture, diverse folk customs and safe tourism environment have produced great attraction, making the total number of inbound tourists in China reach 36.8 million last year, ranking fifth in the world.

In the first half of this year, due to the impact of the Iraq war and the SARS epidemic, global tourism was once weak. Since the second half of the year, tourism in Europe has increased significantly, and Africa and America have also increased. Tourism and related services in some parts of Asia have gradually returned to normal. The World Tourism Organization is optimistic that tourism, as one of the pillar industries in Asia, will fully recover by the end of this year.

At present, the world tourism industry is developing towards regionalization and diversification. For many years, the world tourism industry has been dominated by Europe, and now it has gradually formed a tripartite confrontation between Europe, Asia-Pacific and America. In the choice of tourism mode, some countries have adopted the strategy of "new" and "different" to win. In addition to some traditional tourism projects, cultural tourism, business tourism, eco-tourism and online tourism attract tourists with their novelty, uniqueness, strong times and rich content, and have achieved good economic benefits. In addition, due to the influence of world economic factors, the competition in the international tourism market will become increasingly fierce in the future.

How to better develop tourism resources, attract more tourists and increase domestic foreign exchange income and employment opportunities has become a problem facing all countries. Many countries guarantee and support the healthy development of their own tourism industry by promulgating tourism organization laws or basic tourism laws, directly investing or reducing taxes, setting up tourism development funds, formulating vacation systems, and implementing "low threshold" access and "low threshold" charging policies.