World politics

Meliá

UNWTO forecasts record 1.6 billion global travellers in 2025 and 2.4 billion in 2040; Buy Meliã, P.O from €9.5 to €9

Deutsche Bank | Between 1975 and 2019, the number of annual global travellers nearly doubled every 15 years. The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 was the biggest crisis the industry had ever faced, reducing tourist numbers to almost a quarter of 2019’s record level of 1.46 billion. However, in 2024, the tourism sector almost fully recovered, reaching 1.45 billion travellers (only 1% less than in 2019), and returning to its growth…

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mercosur

Mercosur and EU seek to close unratified free trade agreement reached in 2019

Banca March| The European Union and Mercosur – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – reached a free trade agreement in 2019 but it has since not been ratified owing to unresolved differences between the parties. Now the Mercosur members, who are meeting in Argentina, want to close the agreement “once and for all”, although they also warn that it will not be at any price. On the European side, reticence…