MADRID — The UNWTO has launched a new Tourism Recovery Tracker to support global tourism amid the ********.

Calling it “the most comprehensive tourism dashboard to date,” the Tracker is available for free and covers key tourism performance indicators by month, regions and sub-regions.

With these metrics, travel and tourism companies, and governments, can analyze and compare, in real time, the sector’s recovery around the *****.

The tracker includes data on:

• International tourist arrivals
• Seat capacity in international and domestic air routes
• Air travel bookings
• Hotel searches and bookings
• Occupancy rates
• Demand for short term rentals

The UNWTO says that the massive drop in international travel demand from January through June 2020 has seen a loss of 440 million international arrivals and about US$460 billion in export revenues from international tourism.

That’s five times the loss in international tourism receipts recorded in 2009 amid the global economic and financial ******.