UNWTO Tourism Highlights - 2008 Edition
Tourism Highlights provides a consolidated set of data and trends for international tourism for the
DECEMBER 30, 2008 - Tourism Highlights is a publication from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), released annually on the occasion of World Tourism Day celebrated, in 2008, in Peru under the theme 'Tourism Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change'.
Tourism Highlights aims to provide a consolidated set of data and trends for international tourism in the year prior to its date of publication. For information on actual short-term tourism data and trends, please refer to the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer at:
www.unwto.org/facts/eng/barometer.htm.
The World Tourism Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations and the leading international organization in the field of tourism. It serves as a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how. Its membership includes 160 countries and territories and more than 350 Affiliate Members representing local governments, tourism associations and private sector companies including airlines, hotel groups and tour operators.
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