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TI News: An information service from the National Travel & Tourism Office (NTTO) February 10, 2014 Webinar: Discover Global Tourism Markets International Forecast 2014-2018On Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 12:00pm (noon) EST, the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) and the Commercial Service Travel & Tourism Team will host a webinar on international travel and tourism markets. The focus of this webinar is NTTO's 5-year Travel Forecast for International Travel developed for 2013-2018. The Forecast for International Travel is prepared by NTTO staff using economic/demographic/social factors, Commerce historical visitation trends, input from DOC's U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service staff abroad, and other numerous and varied sources. The Forecast is based on a country-level, bottom-up consensus approach by the forecast team. Each team member develops independent country-level estimates for the top 40 visitor origin markets based on numerous quantitative data and qualitative information. These 40 markets account for 95 percent of total international arrivals. The February 20th webinar will enable participants to get a better understanding of the Forecast for each of the top ten and other select visitor origin markets, including the assumptions behind the forecasts. Please join us for the next of these travel and tourism industry webinars. The details: February 20, 2014 Webinar call-in & log-in information will be sent after registration is received. Interested participants may register here: https://emenuapps.ita.doc.gov/ePublic/event/editWebReg.do?SmartCode=4Q4D For questions, please contact Anastasia Xenias, PhD, at 212.809.2685, Ron Erdmann at 202.482.4554 or Julie Heizer at 202.482.4904. NTTO Background For more detail information on the inbound international travel to the United States, please visit: https://travel.trade.gov/outreachpages/inbound.general_information.inbound_overview.html U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service Background U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO), 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Mail Stop 10003, Washington, DC 20230; Phone:(202) 482-0140; Fax: (202) 482-2887; Website: https://travel.trade.gov; Email: ntto@trade.gov |