Global tourism growth
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- Created on: 29-05-15 16:20
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- Global tourism growth
- Tourism is the worlds largest industry worth $500bn in 2007.
- Domestic tourism is between four and five times greater than international tourism.
- Leisure accounts for 75% of all international travel.
- Europe receives the most tourism worldwide at 54.4% of all worldwide tourism.
- Between 2006 and 2007, the international tourism rose by 6.1%.
- For 83%of countries, tourism is one of the top 5 sources of foreign exchange.
- Caribbean countries get half of their GDP from tourism.
- The top 6 tourist destinations are France, Spain, USA, China, Italy and the UK.
- Germans spend more than any other nation on holiday, followed by Americans, British, French and Japanese.
- Tourism is one of the greatest providers of jobs and income in countries of all stages of development.
- A pull factor is an attribute that attracts tourists.
- Tourism is a temporary short term movement of people to destinations outside the places they live and work.
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