External Influences
External Influences
– Tourism in the world grows to become the highest ranking business (outweighing construction, automobiles, pharmaceutics, IT, and other branches).
– The forecasts of international institutions investigating the economic importance of tourism such as the WTO (World Travel Organization) or the WTTC (World Travel and Tourism Council) highlight the following:
• By 2020, the Central European region will be the number one destination in Europe;
• The mean expected annual growth here in terms of international revenues is cca. 4-5%;
• In the case of Hungary, international tourism revenues are likely to double by 2010; the current economic weight of 10% in Hungarian GDP will increase to 12%.
