Aran Ryan

Summary

Aran leads economic consulting engagements that help organizations understand and communicate tourism trends. He has 25 years of tourism consulting experience in key sectors, including lodging, destination development, visitor activity, business events, international travelers and casino gaming. At Tourism Economics, he manages the industry studies and forecasting team. This team helps clients measure and report economic impacts and policy effects, and forecasts tourism performance. The team’s clients include industry associations, asset owners, operators, global brands, and public sector clients, such as destination marketing organizations. Prior to joining Tourism Economics, he was a Director in the Hospitality & Leisure consulting practice at PwC. Before PwC, he worked at WEFA Group (now S&P Global). Tourism Economics is a Philadelphia-based company focused on combining an understanding of the travel sector with proven economic tools to advise clients. It is part of Oxford Economics, the world’s foremost independent economic advisory firm.