The world’s most tourism-dependent countries


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Fascinating list, if only to understand how vital the links -- literally -- to the outside world are for these countries, for their own economic growth.

When you're a remote island, about the only means of building up an economy is tourism. World Travel & Tourism Council has come out with some data -- along with its overall 2012-2013 numbers -- that shows the extent to which these top tourism-dependent countries rely on that flow of tourists and the money they bring.