Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo
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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| Format: | Brief biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2014-12
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| 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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/22311 |
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