What day is world tourism day? What is the basis?

September 27th is world tourism day. 65438+September 0979 The Third Congress of the World Tourism Organization officially designated September 27th as world tourism day. During 20071-1,major cities in China received 39,970,340 tourists, up 13.37% year-on-year. Among them, 23,330,404 foreign tourists were received, including Hong Kong compatriots1176,899, Macao compatriots 72,2831,and Taiwan Province compatriots 4,740,206.

With the rapid development of the world economy and the substantial 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, so governments of various countries pay more and more attention to the development of tourism. Although the global tourism industry was affected to some extent by terrorist attacks, regional conflicts and world economic recession, it achieved a strong recovery in 2004.

According to the data released by the World Tourism Organization, in 2004, the number of international tourists reached 760 million, and the income from overseas tourism reached 622 billion US dollars, both reaching record highs. According to the forecast of the World Tourism Organization, by 20 10, more than 654.38 billion people will travel abroad every year in the world.