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No obviously not but they are not an insignificant %age of those that do.
As for UK people working in these areas - well maybe it will help their economies if they can employ the locals..... or do they have the 'same' problem we do in that the youth refuse to do these hospitality jobs?
Why do you think Spain is different? If it's like Portugal they employ the locals but the most are immigrants.
Yes, you're right OPM, because the only tourists who go to Europe on holiday are from the UK.
... or not.
And if you look at the holiday destinations you refer to, how many have bars/restaurants run or staffed by UK people?
No obviously not but they are not an insignificant %age of those that do.
As for UK people working in these areas - well maybe it will help their economies if they can employ the locals..... or do they have the 'same' problem we do in that the youth refuse to do these hospitality jobs?
If no tourists visit tourist resorts then the tourist resorts close down (look at Morecambe for example)
Then the local people who used to be employed to support the tourist trade then have to find employment/means of living elsewhere (or starve).
However those people may be quite happy living in their location and do not want to move and are quite happy to work to support the tourist trade.
And the assumption seems to be that if there is no tourist trade these people will be happy to move elsewhere and do different jobs.
Yes I understand that not every single Euro that goes into Spains economy (for example) comes from tourism - however a not insignificant percentage does and it supports a not insignificant percentage of their population.
And if the EU tries to curtail this tourism to 'spite' the UK they are actually directly affecting these people.
But then the farce of the EU refusing to discuss the future of EU national in the UK and vice versa earlier on in the year/last year shows how much they actually care for the common man on the street and their ability to feed and clothe their kids.
Yes, you're right OPM, because the only tourists who go to Europe on holiday are from the UK.
... or not.
And if you look at the holiday destinations you refer to, how many have bars/restaurants run or staffed by UK people?
If no tourists visit tourist resorts then the tourist resorts close down (look at Morecambe for example)
Then the local people who used to be employed to support the tourist trade then have to find employment/means of living elsewhere (or starve).
However those people may be quite happy living in their location and do not want to move and are quite happy to work to support the tourist trade.
And the assumption seems to be that if there is no tourist trade these people will be happy to move elsewhere and do different jobs.
Yes I understand that not every single Euro that goes into Spains economy (for example) comes from tourism - however a not insignificant percentage does and it supports a not insignificant percentage of their population.
And if the EU tries to curtail this tourism to 'spite' the UK they are actually directly affecting these people.
But then the farce of the EU refusing to discuss the future of EU national in the UK and vice versa earlier on in the year/last year shows how much they actually care for the common man on the street and their ability to feed and clothe their kids.
And I think you are assuming the people who currently live and work in these tourist areas will be happy to up sticks and join the rat race in the city, or that they are trained to do technical engineering jobs, or building or plumbing or any number of 'trades' which also contribute in a large way to these countries gdp.
And I imagine you would also be one of the first to jump up and down about how bad Maggie T was in shutting down the mines and then expecting those workers to simply go get a job in a different industry - as that is what you are saying.
Totally, but that's how he operates - makes a claim, when challenged refuses to back it up, then runs away and hope the subject changes or people forget his post. He'll repeat it in a few days.
It depends on his definition of "prop up the economy", if it means "buy a beer in the country", then his figure may be true. If he means that UK tourists are responsible for more than half that country's income, then he must have some amazing stats tucked away somewhere.
Crunching those numbers, the UK is responsible for about €27,000million in tourism each year to the rest of the EU.
If the only country that UK people went to for a holiday was Spain, then yes, the UK would be responsible for about half of their tourism income. That would be roughly 1.5% of their GDP.
...but that only applies if all the UK money spent in Europe was only spent in Spain.
Averaging out the EU as a whole, the UK tourism receipts approx 0.2% of the EU GDP. If you take out the expenses behind those receipts, the figure is about 1/10th of that.
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