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Tourism and leisure Updated: 16 Aug 2018

Tourism's mighty economic impact

It's time for suitcases, airplanes, highways ... and it's the high season for tourism and travelling, an activity that has a huge economic impact around the world. In gross terms, this industry is most important to the United States, whereas in Spain it represents almost 15 percent of the GDP, with Catalonia and Spain's islands being the preferred destinations.

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