Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates
The island states of the eastern Caribbean are wastefully competing with each other for the lucrative, yet stagnant, stay-over tourist trade by ‘flying solo’: separately building long-haul airports and agreeing to expensive bilateral subsidy deals...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24441324/want-keep-tourists-away-keep-flying-solo-lesson-small-caribbean-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22311 |
| Summary: | The island states of the eastern
Caribbean are wastefully competing with each other for the
lucrative, yet stagnant, stay-over tourist trade by ‘flying
solo’: separately building long-haul airports and agreeing
to expensive bilateral subsidy deals with airlines.1
Instead, they could vastly increase their tourist revenue
and lower their costs through collaboration to remove
barriers to inter-island travel. The linchpin of such joint
efforts will be a hub-and spoke airline system that funnels
stay-over tourists to the edge of the region and then allows
them to easily fly to their final destination. |
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