Book on travel, tourism published

American Express Travel Related Services in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications has published a Source Book on Travel & Tourism for APEC delegates and journalists.

The release made available to The Jakarta Post stated that the book contains data and market profiles of each member country.

Travel and tourism are seen as having a tremendous economic impact and as becoming the world's largest industry, but is often overlooked by analysts and journalists.

Travel and tourism generates US$3.4 trillion and more than 204 million jobs around the globe annually and is expected to climb by 79 percent over the next decade.(yns)