Global tourism is thriving! Over 17 million people visited Hungary

According to The World Tourism Organization, 1.4 billion tourists visited a foreign country in 2018, which is a 6% increase since 2017. (This number includes those individuals who visited more than one foreign country).

444.hu reports that there were 1.4 billion tourists in 2018 who visited a foreign country. But who can afford a trip abroad, and where do they prefer going?

“The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. It is the leading international organization in the field of tourism, which promotes tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability.”

The thriving global tourism causes many problems for the locals. The most serious of them concerns the public transportation systems, which are often not prepared to deal with a sudden increase in passengers. Tourist destinations are often overcrowded, and the locals sometimes cannot even get to work or get home on time.

Booming tourism is often not comfortable for the locals, but it is definitely good for the economy: global tourism produced approximately 1.7 trillion dollars in 2018, which is a 2% increase since 2017.