TourisminThirdWorldDevelopment.pptVIP

Tourism in Third World Development /pc/tourism/home.htm /index.htm Tourism’s Importance in Development Tourism is an important economic activity Over 700 million people traveled to a foreign country in 2000, spending more US$ 478 billion. International tourism receipts combined with passenger transport currently total more than US$ 575 billion Thus tourism is the worlds number one export earner, ahead of automotive products, chemicals, petroleum and food. If we consider tourisms potential in encouraging job creation, this would seem to be a natural course of action to stimulate growth But