Tourism translation

M. Zain Sulaiman & Rita Wilson
The National University of Malaysia | Monash University
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Tourism is a major social phenomenon of modern society with significant economic impact. Over the past two decades, tourist arrivals have increased more than twofold from 664 million in 1999 to 1.5 billion in 2019, while tourism receipts earned worldwide surged from 455 billion in 1999 to USD1.7 trillion in 2019, making the tourism industry the fastest growing industry in the world, outpacing the global economy (www​.e​-unwto​.org).

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