Shopping has become a tourism accounts for an increasing share of the travel market as a motive essential travel, and as one of the core activities of the tourists in the countries they visit. World Tourism Organization has issued a report on the shopping tourism, which analyzes the latest trends this type of tourism, and explains the elements of the success of countries that have made more tourism attractions for shopping.
He called for Rifai, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization of the United Nations to tourism and shopping of the few sectors that is rich in high ability to stimulate growth and job creation.
The report analyzes the economic impact of tourism shopping and offers a comprehensive vision of the strategies and priorities pursued by the actors in the tourism sector to promote sustainable growth and diversification of the tourist offer.
The report pointed out that in 2013, China ranked first in terms of foreign tourists shopping revenues of $ 129 billion, followed by the United States and Germany with 86 billion, then Britain and Russia with 53 billion each.
The report gave the example of New York City visited by more than 10 million foreign tourists a year, and represents a shopping core activity for the visitors with an estimated private tourism bureau in the city that 25 cents of every dollar spent by visiting the city's notification to the shopping, and in 2012 was spent visiting, and New York City $ 8 billion shopping.
With regard to Malaysia, the report stated that 25 million tourists visited in 2012, and spent $ 20 billion, of which 30% on shopping.
It is worth mentioning that the World Tourism Organization is a United Nations organization concerned with the affairs of countries in terms of tourism, and issued statistics on tourism demand and supply in the world, based in Madrid.
An international organization originated as a conference for the official tourist transport unions, who founded in 1925 in The Hague, and after World War II amended its name to the International Union of Official Travel Organizations and moved to Geneva.
It was the union of art and non-governmental organization and the number of its members during its peak to 109 national tourist organizations and 88 escorts, including members of groups in the public and private sectors in the world,
In 1967 members of the student union convert it to an intergovernmental entity authorized to conduct agreements on a global basis regarding all matters related to tourism and to cooperation with other competing organizations, especially those of the United Nations system such as the World Health Organization, UNESCO and the International Civil Aviation Organization. A decision was made for the same purpose in 1969 by the General Assembly of the United Nations to organize the central role of the Union, which must be played in the field of international tourism in collaboration with existing entities within the United Nations.
After the resolution passed the Statute of the World Tourism Organization in 1974 by the countries that belong to the official tourist organizations of the International Federation of the above.
The new organization and held its first general assemblies in Madrid in 1975, and appointed the Secretariat in Madrid the beginning of the year following a proposal from the Spanish government, which has provided a building year for the headquarters, and in 1976 the organization became an executive agency of the United Nations for development, and in 1977 signed a formal cooperation agreement with the United Nations itself , and in 2003 the organization has transformed into a specialized agency of the United Nations, and in 2005 the number of members reached 145 countries and seven regions and approximately 350 members representing managing director, educational institutions, tourism associations and local tourism authorities and the private sector.
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