Baumgarten: Travel-and-tourism outlook looking up | hotelnewsnow.com

2008 may have ended on a dour note, and challenges still lie ahead, but the travel-and-tourism industry will rebound by 2010 with steady growth that will continue throughout the decade, according to Jean-Claude Baumgarten, president of the World Travel & Tourism Council. “We are not in the car industry … travel and tourism is resilient,” he said during a general session at the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference.