Treated well, tourism has an extraordinary contribution to make to regional growth; treated badly it has the capacity to damage economies and reduce government revenues.
In the past twenty years the economic structure of the Caribbean has changed almost beyond recognition. The region has moved from being dominated by an agriculture-dependent preference-based model, involving Government’s constant intervention, to one that to a significant extent has come to rely on an industry that is private sector led.
Put another way, tourism and its continuing ability to compete globally
