Etats-Unis : le tourisme est une industrie plus importante que l'automobile - Tourism larger than car manufacture in Americas
"The tourism industry in the Americas region is three times the size of automotive manufacturing and roughly one-third larger than chemicals manufacturing and mining.
This is according to new research from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) sponsored by American Express.
The research, undertaken by Oxford Economics, shows that the sector’s direct contribution to the Americas GDP is US$666 billion which is more than three times the GDP of automotive manufacturing and one-third larger than the global chemicals and mining industry.
Tourism’s total contribution to GDP in the Americas was US$1.9trillion in 2011, or 8.6 per cent of total GDP. "