How on earth does any non-temperate country generate a GNP?

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I don't have a clue, cos I'm as useful as a chocolate teapot in this heat.

There's warm, and there's warm etc...

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Tourism.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Good call.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Massive consumption of Soleros?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no idea if it's true, though -- but New Orleans (which isn't a country, but even so) gets nearly all of its money from tourism, most of which comes in in a single week. So if a city can do it, a small enough country with more expensive resorts ...

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but who owns those resorts?

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

When you've been brought up in a warm climate, you tolerate the heat much better. From my experience of living in both London and Sydney, I'd say people in Sydney work much harder.

― Susan (Susan), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose you could also ask how folks in places where there is an EXTREME temperature change between seasons (Montreal, for instance) can cope with life in general. Freezing cold, mountains of snow in winter, 90% humidity, crazy hot in summer...

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, from my expreience of aussie temps all they do is sit around all day playing on the interweb...

..oh, hold on that's what we do too...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but who owns those resorts?

... why?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

cross post with Steve!!

The Aussie temp I was in charge with at my last place spent all her time talking on Instant messenger with her mates around London who were doing the same thing!!

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I just meant to ask where the money might be going...Tourism dollars don't always support the people who live in the country being touted as a tourist's haven. That's all.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I getcha. Sorry, I slept late today. Yeah, I'm sure most, maybe all, of the resorts are owned by international chains -- but that's true in New Orleans, too, and the jobs are still filled locally. I'm not sure if that would work for a whole country, though (and New Orleans isn't exactly rich as a result of this; the Louisiana schools are among the worst in the country).

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy Sheep Shit, I actually remember this from last term.
This wil be long so please, try not to fall asleep.

Gross National Product (GNP) is the total income that residents of the country earn within the year. It includes the wages and salaries of employees, the profits realized by entrepreneurs and stockholders, the rents received by landlords, and the indirect taxes (such as the Goods and Services Tax, the gasoline tax and the provincial retail sales taxes) collected by governments. It includes the dividends that Citezens receive from abroad, minus dividends paid by businesses operating in your Country to foreigners.
But when it comes to climate that where things get a litte loopy,GNP
determines where a country stands on the international market. Higher GNP higher on the food chain ie: First World Countries. Lowest: Third World. Temperate Countreies with low GNP's are usually due to politics, exports, employment, wars, enviromental and other global factors that do not support good economtic growth.

Plus it helps to have plenty of natural resourses. In Manitoba we dip between -35 to +35 c between winter and summer. Our major exports: Crops, Livestock, and Hydro Energy.
Sorry to write a book but am trying take up sometime till done stupid contract is done on friday. Plus it proves I learnt something from droning prof.

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Tourism dollars don't always support the people who live in the country being touted as a tourist's haven.

No but the industry is more sustainable then heavey industry, less offensive politically then sweatshops and provides the local population with jobs more stable and higher paying then farming. Though it does change shores into beaches and often sits on farmland.

I suppose its not much different from our American CEO and overlords leading our Canadian companies.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Except the tourism companies sometimes know a little bit about the place, or even where the hell it is

― dave q, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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