He cited mobile payments and outbound travel and tourism as two promising market areas.
There, they give out awards for a myriad of categories in the travel and tourism industry.
Travel and tourism spending by international visitors is helping to boost the U.S. economy.
The "friendly" ranking was just one aspect of the report, analyzing each country's competitiveness in travel and tourism.
Plus, the Commerce Department will establish a national travel and tourism office to provide leadership within the federal government.
The travel and tourism industry showed signs of recovery in 2010 but is now under pressure from rising fuel costs.
Employment opportunities in travel and tourism, which fall into the leisure and hospitality industry, are abundant, especially during prime vacation seasons.
In the overall Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index, Europe was the top region with the first five positions all held by European countries.
Also today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released estimates for the second quarter 2012 from their Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts.
Hoping to give the travel and tourism industry a boost, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill to encourage Americans to resume travel.
Partly because of poor transport, the World Economic Forum's latest travel and tourism competitiveness index ranks Vietnam a lowly 96th out of 130 countries.
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The U.S. Departments of Commerce and Interior are implementing the National Travel and Tourism Strategy, which they presented to the President in May.
On January 19th, 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order and announced new administrative initiatives to significantly increase travel and tourism in and to the United States.
The growth in travel and tourism outpaces any other sector, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, with a 7.2% growth rate and thousands of new jobs.
The report emphasized the need for continued development in the travel and tourism sector particularly for its role in job creation in a relatively stagnant global economy.
Furthermore, with the threat of a deep global economic recession looming, the UNWTO doesn't expect the travel and tourism industry to recover until later next year.
In April 2012, it won a prestigious sustainable tourism prize from the World Travel and Tourism Councils, following a similar Best Destination award from Responsible Travel in 2011.
By making it easier to visit the U.S. through improved visa processes, we can win back market share in travel and tourism and create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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The wellbeing of Lebanon's economy depends greatly on the travel and tourism industry which contributes 11% of the GDP thanks to the country's sandy beaches, snowy peaks and vibrant nightlife.
While Disney derives less than a quarter of its revenues from ads, it has been shaken also by the slump in travel and tourism at its theme parks and hotels.
The travel and tourism industry projects that more than 1 million American jobs could be created over the next decade if the U.S. increased its share of the international travel market.
Nadejda Popova, senior travel and tourism analyst at market research company Euromonitor International, acknowledged that the ongoing political unrest -- as well as Europe's economic downturn -- had affected Egyptian tourism.
Through membership services, industry outreach, training and conference programs, TIES helps organizations, communities and individuals promote responsible and sustainable practices in travel and tourism that benefit the environment, communities, destinations and visitors.
As we celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week, the U.S. government is doubling down on its commitment to create more jobs for Americans by growing international and domestic travel and tourism that powers our economy.
So far, the standardized approach, which was launched in June 2012 and is spearheaded by the International Tourism Partnership and the World Travel and Tourism Council, is geared toward companies that book conferences and corporate travel.
In the last year or two he has seen a sharp rise in the use of electronic sentiment monitoring in customer relationship management (CRM) and in travel and tourism TripAdvisor uses Lexalytics to generate its scores.
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"Even as travelers age, they will continue to embrace travel as an opportunity to revisit their hedonistic youth and to spend lavishly, enjoying their leisure time to the full, " global travel and tourism research manager Clement Wong said.
Today's data reveal that real spending on travel and tourism increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2012 after increasing 4.9 percent (revised) in the first quarter of 2012, supporting 7.6 million jobs.
These accounts present a detailed picture of travel and tourism activity and its role in the U.S. economy, including estimates of spending by travelers in six categories of goods and service as well as estimates of the employment generated by travel and tourism and related industries.
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