ABSTRACT
The WTTC claims that travel and tourism is already the world’s largest industry, generates more than 10 per cent of global GDP and more than 10 per cent of global employment and forecasts that the industry will create 130 million new jobs between 1996 and 2006 (WTTC, undated). The WTTC includes more than just the tourism industry in its figures, and it is in effect a lobby group for the industry; but even though their claims may be exaggerated, they are nevertheless in agreement with all other sources that tourism is a large-scale and fast-growing industry.
