Tourism Continues to Drop

Worldwide tourist travel dropped by 8 percent in the first two months of 2009, continuing a downward trend initiated by the financial crisis in the last six months of 2008. Tourism in Europe, with an 8.4 percent drop, has been the hardest hit, followed by the United States with a 3.4 percent drop. The World Tourism Organization expects those numbers to improve somewhat over the year.

(Source: Associated Press)