World Tourism Day 2017: Study the map and listen to travel bloggers

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World Tourism Day 2017 will serve to highlight sustainable tourism and development, which has 3 dimensions: economic, social & environmental. Travel bloggers are the perfect example of sustainable travel by highlighting and respecting local cultures and shining a light on locations that may otherwise be unseen, and be the catalyst for economic change.

To celebrate the 27th Septemberย World Tourism Dayย Principal Hotel Company in the UK spoke to 20 of the top UK travel bloggers and asked them where theyโ€™d been over the past 12 months. The results show just how vibrant the UK travel blogging industry currently is and how diverse the destinations are.

While European destinations are clearly the most popular other areas such as North America, Canada, South Africa and South East Asia are also well traveled.

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Facts:

  • The most popular destination visited was Italy, visited a total of 12 times.
  • The second most popular destination was France, visited 10 times.
  • The most prolific travel blogger was TwoMonkeysTravelGroup.com with over 50 destinations visited.
  • 71.4% of the travel bloggers surveyed travel blog full time.

Source:ย De Vere Hotels

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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