Recovering from the global crisis

The global crisis affected all business sectors as well as the tourism industry. Significant gains to global tourism industry have also tourists from the Middle East and other Arabic countries but also for them the crisis has played fundamental role and lowered their profit.
To compare, last year (2008) the percentage of tourists arriving to the Middle East(counted for the first seven months of the year) was 13% higher than this year. Last year only 42% of Arabs visited another Arabic country while 58% went outside of the Arabic region.
From statistics of World Tourism Organisation results that the tourism industry is recovering step by step and it is predicted that the crisis could be, hopefully, overcame by 2010.