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WHEN MONEY
GOES BACK
source: www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/
sust-tourism/economic.htm
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Import leakage occurs when tourists demand standards of equipment, food, and other products that the host country cannot supply so they must be imported...
Hence, much of the income from tourism expenditures leaves the country again to pay for these imports. According to UNCTAD, the average import-related leakage today is between:
 40-50% of gross tourism earnings for small economies, and
10-20% for most advanced and diversified economies.
Export leakage arises when overseas investors who finance the resorts and hotels take their profits back to their country of origin.
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