Devendra Rajak, joint director of the state tourism department, acknowledged that the number of attendees has fallen this year but declined to identify any specific cause.
Manuel Marrero, Cuba's tourism minister, acknowledged as much in a recent interview in Havana, blaming the "blockade," as Cubans call the embargo, for scaring Americans away.
Leticia Navarro, a cosmetics company executive who was named tourism secretary, acknowledged in her acceptance speech that she was such an unknown that a newspaper article had called her "the incognito secretary".
The tourism industry acknowledges that India "needs to carefully rebuild its image".
Those engaging in contemporary debate over the current and potential benefits and adverse effects of medical tourism for destination societies generally turn to sorely inadequate government-reported medical tourism statistics – widely acknowledged to deploy opaque definitions and creative counting practices – to support their arguments (5).
Tourism is generally acknowledged as one of the economic sectors with higher growth prospects worldwide.
PNG's tourism chief Jerry Agus acknowledged the island needs some work, but said travellers are missing out.
Mexico's health ministry emphasized that the country's Zika outbreaks are far away from the tourism hubs, but acknowledged that the disease will inevitably spread.
Sighing with the weariness of a man who knows he has been given an impossible task, the tourism secretary, Mr. Akhtar, acknowledged the doubts and said there was much work to be done.
As the first missiles were fired and bombs were dropped on Baghdad, tourism officials across Europe acknowledged that the anticipation of war in the months leading to the outbreak of hostilities, along with a deepening fear of terrorism, had persuaded many Americans to stay home.
