The economy of Corsica has been marked for a long time by agriculture and breeding. It is a little productive consumer economy which is strongly dependent up on the foreign countries. The mastery of transport and prices plays a primordial part in it.
Tourism is one of the first isle's industries, it reinforces the importance to give to transport.
The tourists'number has actually been multiplied by four in twenty years. . This seasonal character marks the tourist industry, but also the activities which ensue it and the whole island economy. Its growth rate however follows the national average. Agriculture, Industry and BTP provide, of equal parts, a quarter of it. The business, with a strong increase, is now the first merchant sector of the isle.