Clearly, then, only a relatively small proportion of the money spent by the tourist to a Third World country is spent in that country. This feature of the industry is known as ‘leakage’, which refers not only to the purchase of imported goods and services by tourists but also to the imports of goods and services by hotels and other tourism establishments or organizations and to the repatriation of profits by foreign owners of hotels and other services. Leakage of course is not a feature of the tourism industry exclusive to tourism to Third World countries.