Caribbean tourism is often seen as a double -edged sword. What are the advantages and disadvantages to Caribbean tourism?
What will be an ideal response?
Tourism is now the leading industry in most Caribbean nations. The wealth — and jobs — it generates cannot be underestimated. Tourism has helped transform a region which for centuries has languished with sugar cane as its leading form of revenue into a region with standards of living higher than found in neighboring Latin America. The negative side of tourism is that it is a fickle industry highly dependent upon external factors over which the local government has little control. A global economic recession or major terror attack far beyond the region has drastic consequences for the health of the local industry. Most importantly is that tourism is synonymous with capital leakage, which is the process of the vast majority of funds generated from the industry never setting foot in the region. There exists a gap between gross tourism receipts and the amount of currency which goes into the local economy.
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