Nine million could lose their jobs
Nearly nine million workers in the global hotel and tourism industry could lose their jobs after the terrorist attacks on the USA, says the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
A report prepared for a crisis meeting taking place at the ILO headquarters in Geneva yesterday and today estimates that a 10% reduction in tourism would mean that 8.8 million jobs could be lost, of which 1.1 million would be in the USA and 1.2 million in the European Union.
The survey also suggests that US job losses could reach 3.8 million, depending on how travellers react in the forthcoming months.
ILO Director-General Juan Somavia was not hopeful for the future.
He said: "We have already seen hundreds of thousand of lay-offs and expect the long-term crisis in jobs and enterprises to be even more severe."
