March 14, 2023
The revenge tourism is only getting stronger as the Caribbean Tourism Organisation confirms that for last year tourism came scarily close to pre-pandemic numbers in 2019.
Many jurisdictions that reopened fully in 2022 felt this as they reported bookings beyond the roof, from The Bahamas to Curacao. Business was booming with Americans looking to take advantage of being allowed to travel and leave the confines of their homes for the first time in two full years between 2020-2021.
Will this surge in tourism be sustainable will be the question for 2023. The sustainability depends on two factors, the first being a resurgence of the COVID-19 or some other pandemic, and speaking in particular to the Caribbean’s situation, how long will US President Biden’s economic policies keeps American buoyant. And frankly, I have more confidence in the former not happening than with President Biden keeping the American economy humming along.
I just don’t believe what Biden and the democrats had planned for America is what American needs for sound, economic policy. This is not the time for new-fangled economic shifts. Sure, we need to move away from fossil fuels, but this move has to make sense.
Sure, there needs to be taxation of larger corporations, but the taxation cannot hurt the small man now that he really needs his jobs and his benefits.
This is an incredibly tender time for the world and we cannot afford the Biden administration pretending that we all can take it and just do something radical that changes the way money is made and wealth has been transferred through the system for everyone to benefit.
We must be vigilant about this.