Taleb Rifai
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Mr. Rifai is the Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization. He has held this position since being unanimously elected in 2010. Prior to working for the UNWTO, Mr. Rifai was Jordan's Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Minister of Information and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation.

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A Billion Tourists Are Changing The World

Posted February 1, 2012 | 02/01/12 07:00 AM ET

By the end of 2012, one billion tourists will have traveled the globe in a single year.

This is an extraordinary figure, especially when we consider that just over 60 years ago international tourists stood at a mere 25 million. In 1950, when tourism was the preserve of the privileged...

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