A little over a week ago at least 38 holidaymakers died on a beach in Tunisia, and many more were injured in an appalling terrorist attack aimed at killing visitors and damaging terminally that country’s tourism industry. It was the second such event this year, and followed another in March on tourists visiting a museum that left 17 dead.
In the Caribbean there have been expressions of sympathy and solidarity with Tunisia and with those whose lives have been irreparably altered by the attack.
However, the reasoning behind the terrible events in that Mediterranean country should cause every government in the Caribbean with an economy dependent on tourism to think more deeply about the implications. That is to say, to understand that this is not only about attacking Western tourists and all that tourism stands for, but is also about a belief that by inducing fear among those who might have considered a vacation in Tunisia, it will collapse the tourism economy and bring instability that can be used to the
