A new free tool from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is designed to help travel businesses and individuals follow the industry’s global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The most comprehensive tourism dashboard to date, the Tourism Recovery Tracker is a one-stop shop for tourism data, covering key tourism performance indicators by month, regions and subregions allowing for a real time comparison of the sector recovery across the world and industries.

The result of a partnership between international organizations and the private sector, it gives governments and the private businesses the ability to track the recovery of tourism at global and regional level, alongside information on the top destinations for international tourism.

The tracker includes data on:

• International tourist arrivals
• Seat capacity in international and domestic air routes,
• Air travel bookings,
• Hotel searches and bookings,
• Occupancy rates, and
• Demand for short term rentals

According to UNWTO latest World Tourism Barometer, the massive drop in international travel demand over the period January-June 2020 translates into a loss of 440 million international arrivals and about US$460 billion in export revenues from international tourism. This is around five times the loss in international tourism receipts recorded in 2009 amid the global economic and financial crisis.

The Tracker can be found HERE.