Tourism faces biggest slump since ‘50s

Empty sunbeds lie along a beach in the Cypriot resort town of Ayia Napa. International tourism is set to fall by 70% this year, marking the sector's biggest slump since records began in the 1950s, the secretary-general of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili, told newspaper Handelsblatt. He said this prediction for the coronavirus-hit sector was based on the assumption that countries around the world would gradually open their borders from August. Photo Nampa/AFP