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Table 11.3 The importance of tourism and developing economies

Region Visitor spending as a % of gross domestic product (GDP) (2009 or most recent available)

>50% 25-50% 10-24% 5-9%

Eastern Africa - Seychelles Mauritius, Zimbabwe United Republic of Tanzania,

Madagascar, Comoros, Eritrea, Kenya

Middle Africa - - Sao Tome and Principe -

Western Africa - Cape Verde Gambia Ghana

Northern Africa - - Morocco Tunisia, Egypt

Southern Africa - - - Namibia, Botswana

Eastern Asia China, Macao SAR - Bahrain Mongolia; China, Hong Kong SAR

Western Asia - - Lebanon, Jordan Syrian Arab Republic

Southern Asia - Maldives - -

Southeast Asia - - Cambodia Thailand, Singapore

Central America - - Belize Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador,

Honduras

South America - - - Suriname

Caribbean Anguilla Aruba, Turks and Caicos

Islands, Saint Lucia,
Antigua and Barbuda,
Bahamas, Barbados

Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines,
Grenada, Dominica, Cayman
Islands, Jamaica, Montserrat,
Dominican Republic

-

Oceania Palau, Cook Islands Vanuatu Samoa, Fiji, French Polynesia Micronesia (Federated States of),

Tonga, New Caledonia

Source: Derived from UNCTAD (2008); UNWTO (2011a).