Summary and Conclusions of the 33rd Congress of AIEST, in Nairobi, Kenya, 1983
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Research notes & CommunicationsSummary and Conclusions of the 33rd Congress of AIEST, in Nairobi, Kenya, 1983 SAGE Publications, Inc.1984DOI: 10.1177/004728758402200406 Tyrrell Marris Colleagues, hosts and new friends from Kenya, the AIEST president and committee have asked me to conclude our conference here in Nairobi as follows: (1) by summarizing trends of national and international tourism, being frank about some defects of present day tourism; (2) by considering changes taking place in tourism, but with caution about our ability to foresee the future; and (3) by outlining the conclusions that follow from the present position and foreseen trends, including proper consideration of the role of our Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism. THE PRESENT POSITION There are now about 280 million international tourist arrivals. Five years ago there were 240 million. Those two statistics alone indicate the rate of growth in the 1970s. More recently the growth of tourism has slowed down and perhaps 1982 was the first year in which international tourism failed to grow. Even a "no growth" performance is remarkable, given the present condition of the world economy. Most international tourism originates from the highly developed economic societies of Western Europe and North America where depressed