6.3 Tourism

6.3 Tourism

Tourism is an important part of Ligirian economy. Besides the financial services, yearly around 700.000 tourist from all over the world visit Liga in the summer. The tourism business grew rapidly from the year 2000 up to today, and is yearly increasing. Mainly due to luxury hotels, very fine restaurants, and very good marine facilities a lot of tourist choose Liga as a place to spend a summer vaction. The southern reef, called the Echouer Reef, is populair for diving. The other parts of the island also attract tourists, for example Curser is populair for hiking in the sub tropical forrest and mountains. Port Salut is a populair destination with the Nicoise lake very near, and the great food. Tourism figures released by the Ligirian Statistics Buro revealed 765.761 tourists in 2014.