Eduardo Santander the recently appointed Executive Director of the European Travel Commission (ETC), the European Union body responsible for promoting Europe as a destination, will reveal his forward looking strategy at World Travel Market in London on 6th November.
Europe's share of international tourism arrivals has been falling to 51% in 2011 in comparison to 60% in 1990, and the share of international tourism receipts down from 49% to 44% over the same period.
Despite the falling market share, tourism is still of enormous value to the EU economy. In 2010 tourism directly produced 5% of EU GDP and indirectly 10%. International tourism receipts were €306 billion and six of the world's top ten tourism destinations by arrivals, and five by receipts, were in Europe.
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