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Pandemic cost global tourism $1.3 tn in 2020: UN
MADRID, Jan 28, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The international tourism industry lost
$1.3 trillion in revenues in 2020 because of the pandemic, the UN World
Tourism Organization said Thursday.
International tourist arrivals plunged by one billion, or 74 percent last
year, compared to 2019, the Madrid-based body added, calling 2020 “the worst
year in tourism history”.
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