As the chart shows, the WTTC estimates that tourism’s total contribution to Southeast Asia’s GDP is much greater than its direct contribution. This is because the “total” figure includes both “indirect” impacts (i.e. travel and tourism investment spending from government and the private sector, as well as domestic purchases of goods and services by the sectors dealing directly with tourists), and “induced” impacts (i.e. the spending of all employees of the travel and tourism industry in the broader economy).