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Security fears are on everybody’s lips at the ITB travel trade fair in the German capital Berlin as a battered tourist industry seeks to reassure travellers and tour operators that they need not shy away from booking summer holidays for this year, the Reuters news agency reported.
Attacks in tourist hotspots like a Tunisian beach resort and Paris over the past year have rattled travellers’ confidence, sending bookings for Tunisia, Turkey and Egypt plummeting and heralding a slowdown in demand for international travel.
“People have money to spend, but there’s a strong negative impact from the geopolitical situation. People fear attacks,” Roy Scheerder, commercial director at low cost Dutch airline Transavia, told Reuters at ITB.
The ITB (Internationale Tourismus-Börse Berlin) fair takes place at the Messe Berlin 9-13 March.
In 2015, 5,000 journalists from 75 countries and 350 bloggers from 29 countries attended the ITB Berlin.10,000 exhibitors from 185 countries took part, and close to 200,000 people (members of the travel industry and the general public) visited the fair. The turnover of business deals signed was ? 6,7 billion.
See the whole story at http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-tourism-outlook-idUKKCN0WC2F8
Source: http://uk.reuters.com, www.itb-berlin.de
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