[report: the total number of global tourists is expected to reach 10.78 billion this year] the 2023 World Federation of Tourism cities Xiangshan Tourism Summit in Changsha officially opened. At the summit, Song Rui, an expert from the World Federation of Tourism cities and director of the Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, released the World Tourism Economic Trends report (2023). According to the report, the total number of global tourists reached 9.57 billion in 2022, and the total global tourism revenue reached 4.6 trillion US dollars, returning to 66.1% and 79.6% respectively in 2019. Global tourism revenues, equivalent to GDP, returned to 4.8 per cent, an increase of 0.7 per cent over 2021. The report predicts that the total number of global tourists will reach 10.78 billion in 2023, and the total global tourism revenue will reach 5 trillion US dollars, returning to 74.4% and 86.2% respectively before the epidemic (2019). The proportion of total tourism revenue in 12 T20 countries will return to more than 90% before the epidemic (2019).