Want to keep tourists away? Keep flying solo : a lesson from small Caribbean states (English)

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...

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Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M.;

Bofinger,Heinrich;

Cubas,Diana;

Millan Placci,Maria Florencia;
Document Date
2014/12/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
96227
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Caribbean,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2015/07/22
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Want to keep tourists away? Keep flying solo : a lesson from small Caribbean states
Keywords
Transport and ICT

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Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M.; Bofinger,Heinrich; Cubas,Diana; Millan Placci,Maria Florencia.

Want to keep tourists away? Keep flying solo : a lesson from small Caribbean states (English). Transport and ICT connections note|no. 1 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/259421467991957379

Want to keep tourists away? Keep flying solo : a lesson from small Caribbean states (English)

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