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The International Tourism Partnership (ITP) and the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) are collaborating on a groundbreaking initiative to unite hotel industry efforts to calculate and communicate carbon impact by agreeing on a standardised methodology and metrics informed by the GHG Protocol standards. For the first time, leaders within the hotel industry are collaborating to reach a consensus on a single methodology for calculating carbon footprints and consistent metrics for communicating emissions.

The global travel and tourism industry has grown at a stronger than expected rate this year, but this will be at the expense of 2011, the World Travel & Tourism Council has forecast.

The World Travel & Tourism Council's (WTTC) revised forecasts, global growth and world trade are set to beat expectations in 2010.The economic recovery has been reflected in a faster-than-expected rebound in international travel, particularly in Asian markets.

The four winners of the World Travel&Tourism Council’s 2010 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards were announced today during the 10th Global Travel&Tourism Summit at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China.

The voice of the world's 100 foremost Travel & Tourism leaders, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is calling for governments and organisations such as the United Nations, European Commission, G8 and G20, to re-examine the way policies that affect global Travel& Tourism are co-ordinated and implemented.

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has announced that the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) will host next year's Global Travel & Tourism Summit in Las Vegas

World GDP fell by 2.1% in real terms, with developed economies - a major source of demand for Travel & Tourism - the most severely affected. Households curtailed leisure travel plans, substituting lower-cost short-haul and domestic travel for more expensive long-haul trips, and corporations reduced business travel budgets.

Although its Contribution to Global GDP has Slipped Further in 2009, and the Recovery Will be Slow, Travel & Tourism Remains a Key Engine of Growth

WTTC expects Mexico's Travel & Tourism Economy GDP growth to average around 5% per annum over the next decade (2009-19), generating some 2 million direct industry jobs by the end of the period

Both WHO and the UN continue to advise against restrictions on travel despite the move to 'pandemic' status of the A(H1N1)influenza virus