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The Travel Industry Now Supports Nearly 10 Percent of World's Jobs

Dan Peltier

Photo Credit: A front desk employee at the Crown Plaza Changi Airport in Singapore helps guests check-in to their room. Skift / Dan Peltier

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In case the world needed any more proof that travel is one of the largest global industries, it just got it.

The travel industry employed one in 11 people in the world's working population in 2015, supporting more than 284 million jobs that contributed more than $7.2 trillion to global GDP. That number of jobs is more than Brazil's entire population, for example, and travel's GDP contribution accounts for nearly 10 percent of the world's total GDP. Some 7.2 million new jobs were generated by t

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