Hungary 14th Bestplaced In Europe In Tourism Recovery
As countries around the world lift travel restrictions and relax their borders, the global travel industry is on track to fully recover from two years of restrictions, although the pace varies from destination to destination. In an analysis of which countries returned to pre-COVID levels fastest by 2019 compared to 2021-2019, money.co.uk ranked Hungary 26th overall and 14th in Europe. Globally, the survey ranked Bahrain in first place with 94.7%. Second place overall and first place in Europe went to Albania with a tourist recovery rate of 89.8%. The southeastern European country welcomed 5.3 million tourists in 2021, almost equal to 5.9 million in 2019. Luxembourg ranks second in Europe (and seventh in the world) with over 700,000 tourists in 2021, accounting for 70% of the total in 2019 corresponds. The small, landlocked Central European country “only” lost half of its usual tourist traffic at the start of the 2017-2020 shutdown. Iceland rounds out the top 3 in Europe (eighth) wit...