Tourists walk past the glass Pyramid of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, January 15, 2024. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo MADRID, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Global tourism is set to fully recover from the pandemic in 2024 as international tourist arrivals will likely be 2% more numerous than in 2019, the United Nations’ World Tourism Organisation said on Friday. In 2023, travel demand in Europe and Africa almost reached pre-pandemic levels, and surpassed them in the Middle East. Some destinations, such as Mediterranean Europe, the Caribbean and the Central American and North African sub-regions, exceeded their 2019 international tourism arrivals last year. In 2023, international tourism ended at 88% of pre-pandemic levels, with an estimated 1.3 billion international travellers.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 19, 2024 14:29 UTC