"Every tenth person on Earth works in the tourism sector, it provides livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Guterres stressed that most of those at risk of losing their jobs in tourism work in the informal economy or micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Earlier, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Duma Deputy Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with FAN, assessed the possible impact of tourism on the situation with the coronavirus pandemic.