The United Nations tourism agency says the epidemic Corona virus will cost the global tourism sector دو 2 trillion in 2021.
According to the French news agency AFP, the World Tourism Organization based in Madrid on Monday called the revival of the tourism sector "critical" and "slow".
The World Tourism Organization's prediction comes at a time when infections are on the rise in Europe and a more dangerous new variant of the corona virus, Omicron, is spreading around the world.According to the agency, tourist arrivals this year will be 70 to 75 percent lower than the number of 1.5 billion in 2019. The situation was similar in 2020.
According to the UNWTO, the global tourism sector lost more than Ù¹ 2 trillion last year due to the epidemic, making it one of the sectors most affected by the health crisis.
Although the United Nations agency promoting tourism has no idea how the sector will perform next year, its outlook for the medium term is not encouraging.
The UNWTO said in a statement that "despite recent improvements, uneven vaccination rates around the world and new corona varieties such as Delta variant and omecron can affect already slow and fragile recovery."
According to the head of the UNWTO, the recent imposition of new virus-related sanctions and lockdowns in several countries shows that "this is a very unexpected situation."
