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Accelerating Travel & Tourism Recovery
Released on May 11, 2026
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Accelerating Travel & Tourism Recovery

This Executive Summary provides the highlights of WTTC’s comprehensive thought leadership report on crisis resilience that details how well Travel & Travel Tourism destinations recover from 100 various shocks across the past four decades – from natural disasters and health crises to terrorism and political upheavals.

This Executive Summary provides the highlights of WTTC’s comprehensive thought leadership report on crisis resilience that details how well Travel & Travel Tourism destinations recover from 100 various shocks across the past four decades – from natural disasters and health crises to terrorism and political upheavals.
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This is the Executive Summary of the latest report from WTTC that emphasises the structural resilience of the Travel & Tourism sector after destinations face a crisis.

The full report, which will be available soon, builds upon WTTC’s 2019 report Crisis Readiness report, and reveals that in most cases of crisis analysed, destinations not only recovered but exceeded their previous peaks.

The Executive Summary includes:

  • Key findings from the research
  • Recovery timelines for different types of crisis
  • Five examples of crises – their immediate impact on tourism and recovery outcomes
  • The four pillars of a tourism resilience framework for recovery
  • Five evidence-based principles for ministers, policymakers, and investors
Number of pages in this product: 9

Methodology and sources

For further explanation of the methodology and sources behind this Economic Impact Research, please refer to these two supporting papers:

2024 Factsheets and Reports: 'Methodology'and 'Data Sources and Estimation Techniques'.
2025 Factsheets and Reports: 'Methodology'and 'Data Sources and Estimation Techniques'.

The full report

For much more data on , including data across other indicators and years, see the full Travel & Tourism Economic Impact Research report for .

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