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International tourist figures pass 1-billion mark in 2012: UN body

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January 30, 2013, 12:02 am TWN

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MADRID -- International tourist arrivals surpassed one billion for the first time last year, with the Asia-Pacific region posting the biggest increase in foreign visitors, and numbers will rise further in 2013, a U.N. body said Tuesday.

The number of international tourist arrivals grew by 4 percent to 1.035 billion in 2012, up from 996 million in 2011, the Madrid-based United Nations World Tourism Organization said in an annual survey.

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