Global Tourism Resilience Day 2024

• Global Tourism Resilience Day is celebrated every year on 17 February.

• Global Tourism Resilience Day is an opportunity to look at and reflect on the resilience of the global tourism industry.

• The United Nations General Assembly established the United Nations Global Tourism Resilience Day on 17 February 2023.

• Over the past few years, the tourism industry has faced unprecedented challenges ranging from natural disasters to pandemics and from political instability to economic recession.

• The term "tourism resilience" is used to describe the ability of a tourism destination to withstand and recover from a crisis.

• According to the latest UNWTO data, an estimated 975 million tourists traveled internationally between January and September 2023, an increase of 38% compared to the same period in 2022.