ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has made a big jump on International Travel and Tourism Development Index by moving up six places as per the latest report released by World Economic Forum.
The 2021 edition of the Travel and Tourism Development Index includes 117 countries. Pakistan has been ranked 83rd, which is up from 89th place in the index’s previous edition of 2019.
The index ranks the countries based on the set of factors and policies that enable the sustainable and resilient development of the travel and tourism industry of each country.
PTDC Managing Director Aftab-ur-Rehman Rana said six points increase in the raking of Pakistan on global travel and tourism index is quite a significant progress. He said Pakistan is among the countries in the Asia Pacific Region that have improved its ranking the most since 2019.
He added that during the last two years, the federal and provincial governments had made significant progress in improving the performance of tourism sector in Pakistan by taking various steps to upgrade tourism services infrastructure, business environment, safety and security, health and hygiene, and socio-economic resilience.
He added tourism has a huge potential to play a key role in the overall socio-economic development of Pakistan and they need to further enhance the performance of tourism sector.
Japan has occupied the top spot on the latest edition of the index followed by the USA, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Singapore and Italy which have been ranked in top 10 on the Travel and Tourism Development index, respectively.
