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SERVICES: SECTOR BY SECTOR
Tourism services

The sector includes services provided by hotels and restaurants (including catering), travel agencies and tour operator services, tourist guide services and other related services. Tourism commitments have been made by 125 members, more than in any other services sector.

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The current negotiations back to top

Tourism services are included in the new services negotiations, which began January 2000.

  
  
The mandate back to top

Principles of trade in tourism services are contained, like for all services, in the GATS.

  
  

Current commitments and exemptions
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All commitments and MFN exemptions. Search for tourism services in the commitments for services by country.

For consolidated information on countries' commitments and exemptions on tourism services go to the services database (opens a new window) click “predefined reports”, then click “All sectors and each level of development”. From the list of sectors select “Tourism services”. Information is broken down by the country's level of development (developed, developing, least developed or transition). Data covers the period January 1995 to December 1999. Does not include data on current negotiations or on countries which joined the WTO since January 2000.

 
  
Documents on tourism services back to top

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  • Background paper on tourism services (Document code S/* and keyword “tourism”)     > search     help

You can perform more sophisticated searches from the Documents Online search facility (opens in new window) by defining multiple search criteria such as document symbol (i.e. code number), full text search or document date.


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