The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a significant blow to the tourism sector in Europe.
The World Travel & Tourism Council has published data on the share of the tourism industry in the GDP of European countries in 2021.
Montenegro's economy turned out to be the most dependent of all, with tourism accounting for a quarter of the national GDP. This indicator is relatively high in other Balkan states, where it ranged from 10% to 20% and higher.
In France, the economic weight of the travel and tourism sector in 2021 was 6.5% of GDP, which roughly corresponds to the European average of 6.2%.
In Spain and Italy, the share of the tourism sector in GDP was 8.5% and 9.1%, respectively, last year. In pre-pandemic 2019, in all three countries, the economic effect of tourism reached 13-14% of GDP.
In 2021, a relatively prosperous situation developed in Greece, where the economic weight of the travel and tourism sector was more than 20%. In Turkey, it reached 7.3%, in Romania – 3.8%.
The German economy last year depended on tourism by 6.4%, the UK – by 5.7%, Poland – by 2.8%. In the Nordic countries, the economic weight of the tourism industry was at the level of 5.3 - 5.5% of national GDP.
The official portal "Wild Nature of Russia" reported that Russian scientists managed to solve the riddle of the reproduction of the Ussuri clawed newt, which existed for more than a hundred years since the description of the species
The results of the meeting of the Ecological and Tourism Council were announced by the press service of the Magadan Oblast Duma. The participants discussed the prospects for tourism development on the Kolyma River
The Association of Tour Operators (ATOR) has reported that it has sent official letters to the airlines Emirates, flydubai, Air Arabia, and Ural Airlines with a request to provide prompt and maximum assistance to tourists who find themselves in UAE airports without proper service
