Global tourism to full recovery to pre-pandemic levels by year end: UN Tourism

MADRID, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- With around 1.1 billion tourists travelled internationally in the first nine months of 2024, international tourism has reached 98 percent of the figures prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, according to the United Nations tourism agency (UN Tourism).

In its Tourism Barometer report issued on Wednesday, the Madrid-based organization revealed that a "full recovery" is