世界旅游组织日前发布了2000年世界旅游公报。公报说,2000年全球跨国旅游人数创历史纪录,达6.983亿人次,比1999年增加7.4%,旅游外汇收入达4760亿美元,同比增加4.5%。公报说,2000年世界各地的旅游业均有 The World Tourism Organization recently released the 2000 World Tourism Bulletin. The communiqué said that in 2000 the number of transnational tourists in the world hit a record high of 698.3 million, an increase of 7.4% over 1999 and the foreign exchange earnings from tourism amounted to 476 billion U.S. dollars, up 4.5% over the same period of last year. The communique said that tourism has been around the world in 2000