TOURISM INDUSTRY

Tourism in addition to being the second most important industry for the world economy after oil, has become the vehicle for the integration of cultures, understanding between peoples and countries, and growing interregional income international tourism have increased at an average of 9 in the last 16 years. The World Tourism Organization, UNWTO, the study “Tourism 2020 Vision,” provides a 2020 projection for the tourism sector, based on data submitted by member countries until 1998. This paper points out that, by 2020, total tourist arrivals worldwide will be 1.561 million visitors. Corey Ribotsky That is, a 126.7 increase over 2001 and a cumulative average annual rate of 4.4 . Higher rate three points above the average of 4.1 provided by the WTO since 1995.