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The full 2001 series consists of one volume covering worldwide trends and five regional volumes including the most actual data for 2000.
The volume World Overview and Tourism Topics presents an overview of tourism trends worldwide in the year 2000 and three additional contributions on the multinational hospitality industry, the cruise industry and sport & tourism.
Each of the five regional volumes-Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East-supply an analysis of tourism development in their respective region and subregions. For each country or territory, provided that data is available, an overview table with tourism and economic indicators is presented, as well as qualitative information on tourism development in 2000 and tourism statistics.
The series is based upon information received from the official institutions of the countries and territories up to August 2001 and for the majority of countries and territories it includes (preliminary) data on the year 2000. All six volumes contain an annex supplying data on international tourist arrivals and international tourism receipts for all countries and territories in the world.
Some highlights from the reports:
* The year 2000 proved an eventful year for the international tourism industry. This fact, combined with the global economic prosperity, resulted in an extraordinary performance of tourism. International tourist arrivals grew at a rate of 7.4 per cent with respect to 1999 resulting in a total of 699 million arrivals worldwide.
* All regions in the world hosted more tourists in 2000, although the fastest developing region continued to be East Asia and the Pacific with a growth rate of 14.7 per cent and some 14 million more tourists than in 1999. Europe, which accounts for 58 per cent of international tourism, grew by an impressive 6.1 per cent to 403 million arrivals, nearly 25 million more than one year earlier.
* Receipts from international tourism climbed to US$ 476 billion in 2000, an increase of 4.5 per cent over the previous year.
