Tourism as a Small-State Development Strategy

Matthew Louis Bishop
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Matthew Louis Bishop: Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Progress in Development Studies, 2010, vol. 10, issue 2, 99-114

Abstract: There has been a shift in many developing countries, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS), towards tourism as the centrepiece of their development strategy. This occurs in the context of narrowing developmental options occasioned by the end of preferential access to metropolitan markets for agriculture and the attendant decline of the primary sector. This article draws on evidence from two case studies from the microstates of the Eastern Caribbean – St Lucia and St Vincent – and discusses the implications of their respective approaches and the ambiguous nature of tourism as a development strategy.

Keywords: Caribbean; development; St Lucia; St Vincent; SIDS; tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340901000201

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