Economy of the Hautes-Pyrénées
Agriculture
High-Pyrenes, territory of culture of corn and breeding, are largely turned towards the food production. They count many famous productions the such Oignon of Trébons, the Haricot tarbais…
Industry
Slightly industrialized, they were illustrated a long time in the electrical material, railway, the textile and aeronautics (SOCATA) and try to turn to and electronics. The activity is in the plain of Tarbes, around Lourdes and of Bagnères-with-Bigorre.
Tourism
Hydrotherapy, with Bagnères-with-Bigorre, Barèges or Cauterets has a considerable economic importance.
Tourism constitutes the first economic activity. It developed around Lourdes, center of pilgrimage, of the ski stations, the such station of Tourmalet, or of the sites the such glacial circus of Gavarnie, of world reputation or the observatory of the Pic of the South of Bigorre.
Lourdes accommodates each year more than 5 million visitors come from the whole world and its 230 hotels place it at the second rank of the hotel cities of France after Paris. The essence of the Lourdian economy rests on the activity inherent in the pilgrimage and tourism. The many souvenir shops, especially concentrated on the avenue of the Cave and with the direct accesses of the sanctuaries, appearing sometimes, at more or less critical ends, for some, the merchants of the Temple of the Bible and the few normally foreign shops of luxury at however a modest city, symbolize this basket.
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