Contribution of tourism spending GDP in Suriname 2010-2020, by type
Suriname experienced a shift in inbound and outbound tourism expenditure as share of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in the past decade, according to UNWTO data. Since 2015 and until the last year depicted, the GDP share of outbound tourism spending was higher than that of inbound tourism spending, reaching the highest point in 2016 with 3.4 percent. In 2020, the expenditure of Surinamese tourists while traveling abroad was equivalent to 1.6 percent of the country's GDP, while spending of foreign visitors in Suriname's territory to 0.5 percent of the GDP.
