International travel will likely fall by 20-30 percent in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, putting millions of jobs in the global tourism sector at risk, the World Tourism Organization said Friday.
"Tourism is among the hardest hit of all economic sectors," the body's secretary general, Zurab Pololikashvili, said in the statement, adding"it is clear" that millions of jobs within the sector are at risk.
By comparison international tourism arrivals declined by 4.0 percent in 2009 during the global economic crisis and by just 0.4 percent in 2003 after the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome which killed 774 people worldwide, it added. Major cultural events and business conferences have been called off to limit contact between people and airlines have drastically cut back the number of flights they offer.
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