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"It is important to keep expanding into new markets and to increase the number of Radisson locations in destinations where we have strong demand." ... "We are forecasting 50 hotels will be added to our system in North America in 1999 with an additional 22 hotels in other parts of the world.
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Latest WTTC/WEFA Tourism Satellite Account forecasts are that in 1999 the Travel & Tourism economy in Thailand will account directly and indirectly for over 4 million jobs and nearly Baht 816 billion ( ... GDP is also forecast to grow to Baht 3.2 trillion (US$86 billion), which will be over 17% of the country's total economic activity. The world average in 2010 is expected to be 11.6% of GDP.
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"Travel demand directly generates activity in many other sectors of the economy such as retailing, construction and agriculture." ... Capital investment is also forecast to grow dramatically and the value of international Travel & Tourism to Mexico should rise by almost 9.8% per annum to US$33.2 billion by 2010.
"Travel demand directly generates activity in many other sectors of the economy such as retailing, construction and agriculture." ... Capital investment is also forecast to grow in most of the countries and the value of international Travel & Tourism to APEC should rise to US$591.4 billion by 2010.
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