Veneto accounts for nearly a tenth of Italy’s GDP and is the second region, after Lombardy, for Italian exports. Many of its numerous small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as its large industrial groups, operate in key export-oriented sectors such as eyewear, clothing, jewellery, shoe manufacturing, leather tanning and marble processing. Tourism is of course not to be forgotten, with cities such as Venice, Verona, Vicenza and Padua amongst the most visited in the country.