{"id":43847,"date":"2020-03-18T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/?p=43847"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:34:02","slug":"open-letter-from-the-world-travel-tourism-council-wttc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/open-letter-from-the-world-travel-tourism-council-wttc\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter From The World Travel &#038; Tourism Council (WTTC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>FROM: <strong>GLORIA GUEVARA<\/strong>, President &amp; CEO of the WTCC<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one can doubt that we are in uncharted territory. The coronavirus pandemic means the world is facing a threat on multiple fronts not seen in peacetime. The Travel &amp; Tourism sector is uniquely exposed, and we estimate 50 million jobs globally are at risk. To put it bluntly, Travel &amp; Tourism is in a fight for survival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travel is the backbone of economies around the world. It brings in essential currency and inward investment, creates jobs and stimulates every sector. WTTC figures show Travel &amp; Tourism contributes to 10.4% of Global GDP and 320 million jobs. It is responsible of creating one in five new jobs and, for eight successive years, has outpaced the growth of the global economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>View the full letter from WTTC <a href=\"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WTTC-COVID-19-open-letter-20200318.pdf\">here<\/a> (pdf).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM: GLORIA GUEVARA, President &amp; CEO of the WTCC No one can doubt that we are in uncharted territory. The coronavirus pandemic means the world is facing a threat on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-membernews","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open-travel-no-image-577x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open-travel-no-image.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"opentravel","author_link":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/author\/opentravel\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}