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International tourism faces biggest slump since 1950s: UNWTO

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BERLIN (Reuters) - International tourism is set to fall by 70% this year, marking the sector's biggest slump since records began in the 1950s, United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili told newspaper Handelsblatt.

He said this prediction for the coronavirus-hit sector was based on the assumption that countries around the world would gradually open their borders from August.

(Reporting by Michelle Martin; editing by Thomas Seythal)

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