Global tourism bounced back from the world financial crisis with unexpected vigour, surging almost 7.0 percent last year compared to 2009, the UN World Tourism Organisation said Monday.”Tourism has once again proved to be a highly resilient sector,” UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai said in announcing the results.
“Boosted by improved economic conditions worldwide, international tourism has recovered faster than expected from the impacts of the global financial crisis and economic recession of late 2008 and 2009,” the Madrid-based body said in a statement.
It said international tourist arrivals were up by 6.7 …

Asia Pacific is powering ahead as one of the most dynamic regions for world tourism in 2010. Outbound travel is increasing at double-digit rates and will end this year well ahead of 2008 levels, thus setting a new record, according to the newly-published ITB World Travel Trends Report from Messe Berlin. The prospects for further growth in 2011 are looking good.
New all-time high for outbound travel in 2010
Asia Pacific is demonstrating this year that it is one of the engines driving world tourism forwards. In 2009 there was a 9% …

According to foreign media reports, the U.S. market research company Nielsen released a report released on Friday said the past year, the use of social media in the Asia Pacific region is experiencing an unprecedented growth, the region has become the most important trends of the network 1. According to Nielsen’s survey found that 7 of Internet brand globally, there are three big brands is social media, it was Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube. The survey also shows that all Internet users around the world, nearly three-quarters (about 74%) of Internet …

Hong Kong people are the most passionate about Facebook among the Greater China region (mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau), shown in a recent research conducted by O’Reilly, “Facebook Demographic Trends”. It seems Facebook has a very hard time in mainland China.