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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Main Authors:	Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia, Bofinger, Heinrich, Cubas, Diana, Millan-Placci, Maria Florencia
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	DESTINATIONS CONSUMPTION DRIVING HUB TRAVEL CRUISE HOTEL INDUSTRY AIRPORT PASSENGERS TOURISTS AIRLINES RUNWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOURIST REVENUES FLOW OF TOURISTS TREND VISITORS TOURISM TOURIST REVENUE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE SUBSIDY TOURIST TRAFFIC TAX AIRPORTS AIRCRAFT CRUISE SHIPS AIR REGION TOURIST SEASON REGIONAL HUBS AIR TRANSPORT DATA COSTS TRANSPORT LONG-DISTANCE AIRLINE REGIONAL AIRLINES TRANSPORT SYSTEM INVESTMENTS EDGE TERMINALS STRENGTH AIR SERVICE CARIBBEAN REGION TOURIST TRADE SUBSIDIES HOTEL INFRASTRUCTURE
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

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spelling	okr-10986-223112021-04-23T14:04:08Z Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia Bofinger, Heinrich Cubas, Diana Millan-Placci, Maria Florencia DESTINATIONS CONSUMPTION DRIVING HUB TRAVEL CRUISE HOTEL INDUSTRY AIRPORT PASSENGERS TOURISTS AIRLINES RUNWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOURIST REVENUES FLOW OF TOURISTS TREND VISITORS TOURISM TOURIST REVENUE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE SUBSIDY TOURIST TRAFFIC TAX AIRPORTS AIRCRAFT CRUISE SHIPS AIR REGION TOURIST SEASON REGIONAL HUBS AIR TRANSPORT DATA COSTS TRANSPORT LONG-DISTANCE AIRLINE REGIONAL AIRLINES TRANSPORT SYSTEM INVESTMENTS EDGE TERMINALS STRENGTH AIR SERVICE CARIBBEAN REGION TOURIST TRADE SUBSIDIES HOTEL INFRASTRUCTURE 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. 2015-07-28T18:14:29Z 2015-07-28T18:14:29Z 2014-12 Brief 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 English en_US Transport and ICT connections,no. 1; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Latin America & Caribbean Caribbean
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topic	DESTINATIONS CONSUMPTION DRIVING HUB TRAVEL CRUISE HOTEL INDUSTRY AIRPORT PASSENGERS TOURISTS AIRLINES RUNWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOURIST REVENUES FLOW OF TOURISTS TREND VISITORS TOURISM TOURIST REVENUE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE SUBSIDY TOURIST TRAFFIC TAX AIRPORTS AIRCRAFT CRUISE SHIPS AIR REGION TOURIST SEASON REGIONAL HUBS AIR TRANSPORT DATA COSTS TRANSPORT LONG-DISTANCE AIRLINE REGIONAL AIRLINES TRANSPORT SYSTEM INVESTMENTS EDGE TERMINALS STRENGTH AIR SERVICE CARIBBEAN REGION TOURIST TRADE SUBSIDIES HOTEL INFRASTRUCTURE
spellingShingle	DESTINATIONS CONSUMPTION DRIVING HUB TRAVEL CRUISE HOTEL INDUSTRY AIRPORT PASSENGERS TOURISTS AIRLINES RUNWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOURIST REVENUES FLOW OF TOURISTS TREND VISITORS TOURISM TOURIST REVENUE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE SUBSIDY TOURIST TRAFFIC TAX AIRPORTS AIRCRAFT CRUISE SHIPS AIR REGION TOURIST SEASON REGIONAL HUBS AIR TRANSPORT DATA COSTS TRANSPORT LONG-DISTANCE AIRLINE REGIONAL AIRLINES TRANSPORT SYSTEM INVESTMENTS EDGE TERMINALS STRENGTH AIR SERVICE CARIBBEAN REGION TOURIST TRADE SUBSIDIES HOTEL INFRASTRUCTURE Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia Bofinger, Heinrich Cubas, Diana Millan-Placci, Maria Florencia Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates
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relation	Transport and ICT connections,no. 1;
description	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.
format	Brief
author	Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia Bofinger, Heinrich Cubas, Diana Millan-Placci, Maria Florencia
author_facet	Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia Bofinger, Heinrich Cubas, Diana Millan-Placci, Maria Florencia
author_sort	Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia
title	Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates
title_short	Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates
title_full	Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates
title_fullStr	Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates
title_full_unstemmed	Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates
title_sort	want to keep tourists away? keep flying solo : a lesson from small caribbean ctates
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	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
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Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo : A Lesson from Small Caribbean Ctates

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