Source: https://yourstory.com/2016/08/deyor-camp/

Tourism consulting provided by the Survey of International Air Travelers has confirmed that a record number of inbound foreign tourists visited the USA in the year 2015. The number has now crossed seventy seven million, half of whom are from within the region including Canada and Mexico. The numbers have steadily been on the rise since 2009. Maximum travelers to the US visited for the purpose of leisure followed by visiting relatives and then business purposes. New York was the most visited state in the USA followed by Florida and California. Rounding off the rest of the top ten included states such as Nevada, Hawaii, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts and Arizona. Meanwhile the most visited cities were New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Chicago, Orlando, San Francisco, Washington DC and Boston. The overseas countries which proved to be top sources for inbound travel were- UK, Germany, China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Italy, Australia and France.

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/03/record-number-foreign-travelers-visited-u-s-2015/

India has always been one of the most attractive destinations globally for the field of medical tourism. World class medical facilities coupled with economical pricing and well trained personnel in English mean that people from across the globe flock to India to avail medical treatments. Many such tourists also go for rejuvenation to places such as Kerala’s backwaters of Himachal Pradesh’s hills. Now technology is further improving facilities. The Cloud and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are allowing better quality of service as more accurate information is now available to medical practitioners. Information technology is enabling Indian medical or pharmacy players to advice international clients or customers. In addition, business analytics is being made use of by tracking enormous amounts of data. This is helping doctors give exact diagnosis and treatment thereafter.

Source:  https://yourstory.com/2016/08/innovation-in-medical-tourism

Expert predictions on the future of the European travel markets especially on wellness and spa have been chronicled in a business consulting assignment submitted by the Global Wellness Institute. Some interesting findings have been reported in it. With growing stress among people in today’s digital age, more number of people require wellness in their lives and to meet such mass needs clinics will depart from their existing glitzy feel to being more inclusive. There was a period when there was stagnation in the growth of the wellness tourism industry in Europe, but now it is bouncing back with fresh investments. In fact it is expected to be the fastest growing sub-sector within the broad category of travel and tourism. Kurs have existed as a way of life in Europe for a long time, but now they are getting packaged to time bound deals. Eastern Europe has been relatively a less important part for this industry, but now it is gaining ground with development of wellness properties across countries such as Azerbaijan, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia and Slovenia. Even some branded hot spring properties are getting developed in Hungary, Poland, Moldova and Czech Republic. With so much of wellness awareness growing, big food companies are bound to be affected. Wellness beauty is in fact taking over from the early Euro-centric cosmetic tradition focusing on external physical appearances. This has led to the beauty industry being driven by latest sophisticated technology. The wellness industry though has to be very careful of not being mixed up with the terms- wellbeing and happiness. While those terms may appear related, there is a prominent point of difference. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/future-of-european-wellne_b_11308184

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/698134/paris-hotel-figures-halve-tourism-in-decline

Source: http://www.traveldailymedia.com/239695/unwto-commends-indonesia-on-tourist-visa-policy/

Azerbaijan’s campaign on “Land of Fire” and devaluation of the currency has meant that the country has seen record inbound tourist arrivals this year. The tourist arrivals have in fact increased thirty times over the same period last year. Numbers provided by tourism consulting body the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has out a figure of 1.7 billion US dollars’ revenue. Azerbaijan is particularly popular among travelers from the Middle East belt with lots of tourist arrivals from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar. Besides budget hotels, five star facilities are also available with top hoteliers Hilton, Four Seasons, Fairmont, Kempinski and JW Marriott all setting up base in the country.

Source: http://www.azernews.az/travel/100569.html