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> Show me a tourist-only country that is not "third world" level Iceland (3 tourists per resident - 70,056.87 USD GDP per capita)

• buboard 7y ago
  > As of 2016, the tourism industry is estimated to contribute about 10 percent to the Icelandic GDP;
  • briandear 7y ago
    Tourism is 9.6% of France’s GDP as well.
    • mijamo 7y ago
      And that makes it clearly not tourist only.
      • ceejayoz 7y ago
        That'll be because there's no such thing as a tourist-only country.
• csomar 7y ago
  From Wikipedia: > Tourism accounted for more than 10% of Iceland's GDP in 2017. That doesn't sound like a tourist-only country.
  • JoeSmithson 7y ago
    Is there any such thing as a "tourist-only country"? Even in developing countries that are popular with rich tourists, like Thailand, tourism is <20% GDP.
    • umeshunni 7y ago
      > Even in developing countries that are popular with rich tourists, like Thailand, tourism is <20% GDP. When you spend your entire vacation at a resort, it might feel like the entire country is a third world "shit-hole" dependent on tourism. That's probably why the OP feels like this.
    • seanmcdirmid 7y ago
      Also, Thailand is a upper middle income country. Developing sure, but slightly richer than China and Mexico on a gdp per person basis. Singapore and Hong Kong get a lot more tourism (per GDP) and are both high income city states.
  • umeshunni 7y ago
    According to the World Tourism and Travel council's report, Iceland is #21 on the list of countries most reliant on tourism. The highest is Maldives with 25%. Sorry to burst your bubble, but there aren't any countries where 100% of GDP comes from tourism. https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/2018/power-and-performance-rankings-2018.pdf https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/2018/power-and-pe...