According
to experts' forecasts growth of international tourism in the first 10-20 years
of the XXI century. will decline somewhat. If the level of 1999 and 2000.
global growth rate of just over 5%, in the next five years is expected to
decline to 4.4% by 2005 and to 4.3% by 2013
Big changes in the structure and projected
out. The share of inter-regional travel long distances is growing:
in 1995 it was 15%, and by 2013 is expected to
increase to 25%. This trend can be explained not only by the fact that people
are traveling more and more, but the fact that the modern tourism industry can
offer tourists a variety of opportunities for travel fairly high level of
security guarantees.