The Spectator

Barometer | 14 May 2011

This week's Barometer

issue 14 May 2011

A better class of tourist


— The Seychelles tourism industry received a boost with the announcement that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to spend their honeymoon there.

— Like many island states in the tropics, tourism is a huge part of the economy: just over half the country’s GDP and 70 per cent of its foreign currency earnings.

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