Tourism is one of the world's largest industries. Proof of this claim is that the industry generates 10.9 trillion dollars in annual revenue, equivalent to 10 percent of the entire world economy.
But more important than money is employment. One in ten people worldwide has a job that depends directly or indirectly on tourism. From the airport taxi driver to the hotel employee, from the luggage-factory worker to the travel-agency website designer, they are all part of this 357-million-person chain.
Statistics show that tourists spend more year after year, and foreign travelers have spent 11.6 percent more than the previous year.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian