The WTCF and the PATA jointly released the World Tourism Destination Potential Competitive Index Report (2025), analyzing the “potential stocks” of global tourism cities in the future and focusing on the transformation of potential resources. This report systematically proposed the concept of “cities with competitive potential” for the first time and evaluated the competitive potential of emerging global tourist cities from ten dimensions, providing strategic basis and implementation paths for the development of urban tourism, which has attracted widespread attention from the industry.
This report conducts a systematic assessment of 100 representative tourist cities worldwide, covering 70 countries and regions. The report evaluation system conducts in-depth analysis from six dimensions: city popularity, industrial prosperity, city intelligence, tourism safety, economic contribution and tourist satisfaction, relying on 32 sub-indices and 61 specific indicators. All the weights of the indicators are determined by international experts using the Delphi method, ensuring the scientific nature and international comparability of the evaluation results.
The World Conference on Tourism Cooperation and Development 2024 commenced at the China National Convention Center in Beijing on September 12. At the conference, the World Tourism Cities Development Report (2023) was officially released, providing intellectual support and sharing experiences for the sustainable development of the tourism cities worldwide.
The Report on World Tourism Economy Trends (2024) presented to you generally maintains the framework of previous reports and provides a panoramic analysis of global tourism development from the perspectives of the globe, regions, countries, cities, industries, and companies. This Report not only analyzes global tourism economy trends, pattern changes of regional development, and prominent characteristics of key countries, but also outlines recovery strategies for tourism cities, development trends of critical industries and typical adjustments to business strategies.
The World Tourism Cities Development Report (2022) focuses on 100 sample cities worldwide. To make a scientific and comprehensive analysis of the sample cities, the report sets up 32 sub-indices and 61 component indicators from six perspectives (i.e. city popularity, industry development, urban intelligence, tourism safety, economic contribution and tourist satisfaction). It aims to fully and vividly reflect the development features of the world's major tourism cities and tourism industries in 2022, and to provide a better experience summary and enlightenment for the world's tourism cities and tourism enterprises, thus advancing the sustainable development of the global tourism industry.
On 10 May 2023, the World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) and the Tourism Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (TRC-CASS) jointly released the Report on World Tourism Economy Trends (2023) in Beijing.
On March 2, 2022, the World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) and the Tourism Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (TRC-CASS) jointly released the Report on World Tourism Economy Trends (2022) (hereinafter referred to as the Report) in Beijing.
As an important research result of WTCF, the Report aims to present a more comprehensive and vivid picture of the development of the world's major tourism cities and tourism industry in 2021, and provide more experience sharing for the comprehensive recovery of the world tourism cities and tourism industry.
2021 WTCF Beijing Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit & World Conference on Tourism Cooperation and Development kicked off in Beijing on 3 September. At the conference, Li Baochun, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of WTCF, launched on behalf of the organizer WTCF's key research result, Agenda for the Future Development of World Tourism Cities (2021-2030).
2021 WTCF Beijing Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit & World Conference on Tourism Cooperation and Development held by the World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) kicked off on 3 September. WTCF expert Du Yili released the World Tourism Cities Development Report (2020).
