One of the strongest drivers of global economic growth isn’t factories or financial services or internet startups, it’s what we do when we’re not working. We are becoming a planet of tourists.
Consider this: For the past seven years, the travel-and-tourism sector has outperformed the overall economy every year, contributing as much as $7.6 trillion in 2016, including the wider impact on the economy, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. During the next decade, the council predicts, almost one in four jobs created worldwide will be related to tourism.
Nowhere is this revolution more dramatic than in Asia.A rising tide of travelers from China is spreading out across the region, out-shopping, outspending and out-eating every other nation. They a
Asia is the epicenter of a travel boom.
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