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Travel & Tourism Environmental & Social Impact Factsheets
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Travel & Tourism Environmental & Social Impact Factsheets
Released on Oct 25, 2023
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Travel & Tourism Environmental & Social Impact Factsheets

Discover the total environmental and social footprint of the Travel & Tourism sector in data-rich, four-page factsheets for 185 economies and 10 regions around the world. Each factsheet also shows how the sector contributes to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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A new and updated EIR is coming soon. However, in the meantime you can still access the World factsheet and the top-level regional data.
Please note that all data, including historic data, gets updated every year.
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Each factsheet includes data on the following indicators:

  • Travel & Tourism's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions
  • Travel & Tourism greenhouse gas emissions intensity
  • Travel & Tourism greenhouse gas emissions by industries
  • Share of low-carbon energy
  • Travel & Tourism water use
  • Travel  & Tourism female employment
  • Travel & Tourism youth employment
  • Travel & Tourism high-wage employment
  • Travel & Tourism contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goals
You can view the ESR microsite containing data visualisations here
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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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Research support partners

Ministry of Tourism Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Oxford Economics

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