Security still clouds global tourism outlook-U.N. tourism body head


  • World
  • Thursday, 02 Mar 2017

ATHENS (Reuters) - The United States stands to lose millions in tourism revenues by travellers who will shun the country because of its ban on the nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries, the head of a United Nations tourism body said on Thursday.

Taleb Rifai, a Jordanian who is Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, also said the ban was partly the result of Americans not being well-travelled.

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