The Sustainability of Caribbean Tourism
On this episode, The Yaad speak to Dr. Ishtar Govia, the lead researcher on the Caribbean Policy Research Institute’s (CAPRI) recent publication,” Sun, Sand, and Sustainability: A Way Forward for Caribbean Tourism”. This report compares and contrasts the perspectives of different stakeholders in the Caribbean tourism ecosystem with respect to COVID-related survival, recovery, and transformation of the sector; where the main countries spotlighted were St. Lucia, Barbados, and Jamaica, given the relatively high dependence on tourism in these countries. Dr. Govia went through the data, she and her team gathered, to provide a snapshot of the problems with the current model of Caribbean Tourism.
Notes
CAPRI: Sun, Sand, and Sustainability - A Way Forward for Caribbean Tourism
ECLAC: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Tourism Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
IDB: Weathering The Coronavirus Storm In The Caribbean
IDB: Caribbean Economies In Time of Coronavirus
OceanDoctor: A Century of Unsustainable Tourism in the Caribbean: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Cuba
Etudes Caribeennes: Caribbean Island Tourism: Pathway to Continued Colonial Servitude by Alfred Wong
Smile Orange (movie)