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Travel
Chinese Tourists Are Taking Over the Earth, One Selfie at a Time
- Asia is the epicenter of a boom that is changing how we travel
- A quarter of all new jobs may be tourism-related in 10 years
One of the strongest drivers of global economic growth isn’t factories or financial services or internet startups, it’s what we do when we’re not working. We are becoming a planet of tourists.
Consider this: For the past seven years, the travel-and-tourism sector has outperformed the overall economy every year, contributing as much as $7.6 trillion in 2016, including the wider impact on the economy, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. During the next decade, the council predicts, almost one in four jobs created worldwide will be related to tourism.