It is interesting that *not* on this list is--foreign tourism. Rightly so-- because for American workers, with at most two weeks vacation, international travel has always been an unattainable luxury, its ever increasing inaffordability has little impact on their standard of living. Meanwhile popular tourism has become an ever-increasing part of the living standard in every civilized industrial country.
Shane Mage
"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30