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City Tourism Rankings – New Records and New Challenges

with Emma Laverty, Helen McDermott and Kieran Ferran | Online | May 20, 2025

As we are looking ahead to continued travel growth, the composition of travel demand is evolving. City travel has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and is converging on longer-run trend growth rates. However, there are some significant shifts in activity and preferences within the total while uncertain tariff policies are also weighing on city tourism. In this webinar we assess our latest global city travel forecast update, how our city tourism rankings have changed, the regional opportunities for tourism growth and the impact of the latest US tariff policies.

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Trump 2.0: US Economy & Policy Shifts

with Ryan Sweet, Adam Sacks, Barbara Byrne Denham, Michael Pearce and Nico Palesch | Online | May 6, 2025

In the first session of our Trump 2.0 series, we turn our attention to the domestic landscape. We unpack how Trump’s early policy actions — from fiscal shifts and labour market interventions to immigration and industry-specific changes — are affecting the U.S. economy, and how tariff policies will impact local markets. We assess the immediate and longer-term consequences for states, cities, sectors, and tourism, and consider what lies ahead as the administration’s agenda takes shape.

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Aviation’s role in fuelling economic growth and how to future-proof global air transport

with Chloe Parkins, Sami Hamroush, Stephen Rooney and Haldane Dodd | Online | April 10, 2025

Aviation is a key driver of global economic growth, connectivity, and innovation. This webinar, co-hosted by Oxford Economics and the Air Transport Action Group, will explore the findings of the Aviation: Benefits Beyond Borders report, highlighting aviation’s role in economic development, job creation, and global trade, specifically in developing countries and emerging economies. It will provide a platform for an insightful discussion on the challenges of a global industry and how to future-proof air transport for generations to come.

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Growth, Risks and the Return of Chinese Outbound: What does 2025 have in store for APAC Tourism?

with Michael Shoory | Online | February 4, 2025

With inbound tourism well on the way to recovery in APAC, we take a look at the year ahead and discuss what to expect for travel and tourism in the region. This will include expectations for the recovery of Chinese outbound tourism, projections for the performance of different destinations, and a discussion of the economic, political and other risks to the outlook.

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ETC tourism trends and prospects: Q4 2024

with Chloe Parkins and Jennifer Iduh | Online | January 29, 2025

Tourism Economics will highlight and reflect on the latest tourism trends and data in Europe for 2024, as well as provide some analysis on both the global and European economic backdrop. Following President Trump’s inauguration, we will also highlight some key assumptions and risks to the forecasts and how a second term may impact travel flows, including those from China and how this may effect the long-haul travel recovery.

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Unveiling the key source markets – including China – for APAC tourism destinations

with Federico Chirico and Michael Shoory | Online | April 4, 2024

We will explore growth prospects for key source markets – both established and emerging – for tourists within the APAC region, and the expected destinations of those travellers. As part of this, we will touch on global and regional trends for outbound travel, and consider the latest developments and outlook for the recovery of the Chinese outbound market. This includes the continued importance of China as a driver of demand relative to other growing markets, and the implications for a range of destinations.

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Sailing ahead: how cruise supply will help to sustain demand recovery

with Helen McDermott and Christian Savelli | Online | February 27, 2024

The cruise sector is experiencing a renaissance, with strong demand growth outpacing wider travel activity, regardless of a 25% deployment increase compared to 2019. Looking at our first forecast up to 2029, we will explain how future deployment will impact demand for cruising; how this will compare against wider demand trends; and how this aligns with cruisers’ preferences revealed in our first cruise passenger survey.

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Is city travel recovery a return to pre-pandemic norms?

with Dave Goodger, Kieran Ferran and Emma Laverty | Online | October 3, 2023

City tourism recovery continues and our latest forecast update suggests that 2023 will be the year when many markets will regain 2019 levels in terms of total arrivals (international and domestic) with many more on the cusp of a recovery. But the balance of travel segments has changed, and recovery in some international and long-haul segments will take longer for many cities. We will discuss the latest trends in this session as well as the reasons why recovery to date may differ from prior expectations. Any problems associated with over tourism will also be discussed as we reach previous pre-pandemic peaks.

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Why air travel is set to soar ahead again in 2023

with Dave Goodger | Online | June 20, 2023

Air passenger demand data for early-2023 indicates further significant improvements over 2022’s partial demand recovery. Despite a subdued economic backdrop, forward looking data across May to September show little sign of this recovery taking any reprieve and activity is set to surpass 2019 levels towards the end of the year. The re-opening of the Chinese international travel market is providing some additional reasons for optimism. Tourism Economics and IATA will share latest data, trends and the outlook in this webinar.

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Air travel recovery – the sky’s the limit

with Dave Goodger, Stephen Rooney and Andrew Matters | Online | December 7, 2022

Air travel has continued to grow throughout 2022 as recovery from the pandemic has continued, including improvement in both domestic and international air travel. Growth to date has been largely fuelled by pent-up demand and accumulated savings but fundamental drivers of demand and affordability will become more important. In this session we will explore the growth outlook, opportunities and potential headwinds.

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Cruise operations resume amid heightened competition

with Dave Goodger and Christian Savelli | Online | December 5, 2022

Fully restored cruise schedules are planned for 2023 following a return to cruising in 2022 and signs of resurgent demand for this form of travel.  However, new ship construction means that there have been significant increases in capacity and cruise lines need to make important deployment decisions, with implications for port performance and also for pricing. We will share insights from our new Cruise-IP service to show the latest trends and forecast as well as illustrating the capacity, deployment and pricing challenges and how this services can support decision making.

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European travel recovery despite looming recession – ETC 2022 Q3 trends and prospects

with Dave Goodger, Jennifer Iduh and Chloe Parkins | Online | October 20, 2022

Strong rebound in travel continued during 2022 summer months across European destinations, despite economic slowdown. The region now sits on the brink of recession and we will explore how much this is expected to affect travel prospects for the remainder of the year, and into 2023, as well as the impact of currency shifts and potential for recovery in demand from some long-haul markets which are likely to re-open.

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Economic woes and travel flows – tourism outlook

with Dave Goodger and Helen McDermott | Online | October 12, 2022

Travel recovery has accelerated throughout 2022, with strong rebounds evident in a wide range of destinations during the northern hemisphere summer months, as travellers have begun to return to more typical activities. However, complete recovery to pre-pandemic levels is not guaranteed. In this session we will explore the impacts of the slower economic activity and rising costs on travel demand and present our latest global outlook.

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Overdue recovery in city travel and risks of overtourism

with Dave Goodger and Kieran Ferran | Online | September 16, 2022

The start of the recovery in international travel has benefitted a wide range of city destinations in 2022 which typically saw sharper falls in demand during the pandemic. In this webinar we will share the latest trends and our expectations for travel to key destinations identified in our Global City Travel (GCT) database for coming years, including the timing for full recovery to pre-pandemic levels, the latest city rankings and comparison against some notable non-city destinations.

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Economic headwinds hinder near-term air travel recovery

with Dave Goodger, Tourism Economics and Andrew Matters - Economic Advisor to IATA | Online | September 1, 2022

Rebound in air travel demand has faltered somewhat mid-year as economic headwinds are hindering growth. Higher costs and squeezed incomes are having some initial, but modest, impact, while labour shortages have become a concern. We will explore these issues and our revised outlook with our partners at IATA.

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Global uncertainties and the outlook for cities in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America

with Richard Holt and Scott McEwan | Online | July 19, 2022

2022 is proving to be yet another highly unpredictable year—but also one with large variations by global region and hence across different cities. Some are seeing strong tourism recoveries while others are struggling to emerge from lockdown. Some face manufacturing supply problems, while others are experiencing tech booms. Inflation is a major issue for many, but not all. In this webinar we will explore and explain the differences, and discuss how quickly, if at all, city economies will return to normal.

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European travel recovery is underway despite risks – ETC 2022 Q2 trends and prospects

with Dave Goodger, Tourism Economics and Jennifer Iduh, ETC | Online | June 24, 2022

High inflation, including rising travel costs, and staff shortages are the two major risks threatening the ongoing recovery in European travel in 2022. In this session we will provide an overview of current trends and the outlook for European travel recovery this year. Within this, we will share the likely impacts from these headwinds as well as explaining why we believe these effects will be temporary and won’t derail growth, as well as the likelihood of more adverse outcomes.

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Where is the travel recovery headed – global tourism outlook update

with Dave Goodger and Helen McDermott | Online | June 14, 2022

The post pandemic travel recovery is well underway in 2022 despite disruption related to the war in Ukraine as well as continued travel restrictions in some countries and most notably in China which is still pursuing a zero-covid policy. We will describe our latest forecast update, including the effect of recent events and will explore the potential impacts of related price increases on travel recovery, including the impact on average tourism spending patterns.

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Is the air travel recovery headed for turbulence?

with Dave Goodger, Tourism Economics, Stephen Rooney, Tourism Economics and Andrew Matters - Economic Advisor to IATA | Online | May 18, 2022

Air travel demand accelerated in early 2022 prompting expectations of a rapid acceleration into the northern hemisphere summer and suggesting that fears of a sharp Omicron-related fall were unfounded. However, concerns in many countries have now shifted towards the impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which we will explore, along with our forecast partners at IATA, in this webinar. We will look at the path for recovery in the rest of the year and beyond as well as major risk factors.

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