Articles of category "Travel Industry Indicators"

The World Tourism Organization forecasts the following travel trends: international tourism will continue growing; Europe will remain the most popular destination; long-haul will grow slightly faster than intraregional travel; second vacations will become more popular as people's income increases (for example: a summer package to a typical mass tourist resort combined with a winter skiing tour); tourism products will become one of the most traded items on the net.

In recent years, the Internet has become one of the most important information sources for the European travel world. Hereby, UK was the biggest online travel marketplace in Europe with 6 million people visiting travel sites. Germany was the second, followed by France. Current travel indicators provide a general overview of the current level of tourism activity in a travel marketplace. All indicators are usually presented on a month-by-month basis and are compared to the same time period of the previous year.