What are the economic significance of tourism?

Question

What are the economic significance of tourism?

Answer 1

tourism->visitors  visitors->attention  attention-> more people

more people-> large source of money, foreign currency

therefore, tourism->more money

Answer 2

it's not that hard tourist's spend money on hotels, eating out, attractions and a variety of different things. So hotels employ people to look after you, restaurants do the same thing therefore tourism means jobs

Answer 3

The main economic significance of tourism in a country is foreign currency.  The country exchanges the money and is then able to sell it back to that country (preferably at a better rate)