WTFI: Tourism Sector To Return to ‘Normal’ by 2024

  • Date: 07-Sep-2020
  • Source: Al Bawaba
  • Sector:Tourism
  • Country:Egypt
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WTFI: Tourism Sector To Return to ‘Normal’ by 2024

Comparing the current outbreak to similar cases, world tourism next year may expand 1.5% from pre-pandemic 2019, with higher hopes for the year to come, according to a leader in the sector.

Bulut Bagci, head of the UK-based World Tourism Forum Institute (WTFI), said after the 2001 terrorist attacks and SARS epidemic of 2003, tourism narrowed dramatically, but bounced back rapidly in the US and Asia.

"I'm completely positive the world will normalize after May 2021 - gradually the tourism sector will return to normal by 2024," he told Anadolu Agency.

Bagci believes measures imposed worldwide to stem the spread of the coronavirus had negative effects on people. "I'm not waiting for similar lockdowns," he said.

As tourism narrowed 98% in 2020, many firms were affected, and figures showing the sector's position will be