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> Tourism is a shit industry. You could mostly annihilate it and replace it with productive things most of the time.

That's a bold statement, as if the whole world invests in tourism because they don't know better.

Spain's tourism sector represents a double-digit chunk of their GDP and is one of the rare sectors which has a direct effect in reducing unemployment, specially in the low-skilled, NEET cohort which is extremely problematic in countries such as Spain. Claiming that a country like Spain could simply annihilate it and replace it with something else is an extraordinary thing to say, specially as it lacks any support.

>>chipda+(OP)
The world once had very little to no tourism and it worked just fine. It’s not essential to civilisation, and conceivably you could ban it with no major effects.

I’m not saying it’s a good idea to ban it. But tourism is anything but essential.

Sure the Spanish economy benefits from it right now but over reliance on it, as I explained above, can be a bad thing.