Published on : Friday, March 15, 2019
This growth is partly attributed to the North Africa’s rebound from security crises as well as the development and implementation of policies that promote travel facilitation.
Travel & Tourism contributed U.S. dollars 194.2 billion to the region’s economy which is 8.5 per cent of the continent’s GDP. Ethiopia stands out not only as Africa’s fastest growing travel economy but indeed the world’s, growing by 48.6 per cent last year to be worth U.S. dollars 7.4bn. Africa tourism spending was driven by leisure (71 per cent) and business (29 per cent).
WTTC President & CEO Gloria Guevara said: “In 2018, the World Travel & Tourism Council hosted its first ever Africa Leaders Forum in Stellenbosch, South Africa, recognising the increasing significance and power of this great region’s travel economy. We commend the tourism leaders in Africa who are helping to boost connectivity, promote travel facilitation and ensure traveller safety – all of these measures make for supreme growth; the kind of growth that we are now witnessing across the continent and that provides millions of good jobs.”
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