Tourism has come to occupy, relatively suddenly, a central place in the economies of Caribbean nations previously reserved only for sugar and tobacco, and to a lesser extent, for coffee. It is now the primary source of foreign currency at each of the 30 or so Caribbean destinations, excepting the case of Cuba, where until […]
The Tourism Industry in the Caribbean After Castro
Notes1 The Caribbean Sea is home to the world’s largest assemblage of small and mini-states, a mixture of large to small islands with a wide fusion of languages, religions, ethnic groups, and customs (Thomas 1988). This pattern of development reflects the influences of colonization and settlement: four major European empires, as well as the United […]