Tourism began to emerge in the Caribbean from the mid-1960s, and since that time, the sector experienced consistent growth so as to make it the major economic sector in the region by the early 1990s. While several factors such as the development of air travel, and closeness to the major source markets of the United States of America contributed to the strong growth in Caribbean tourism, the region's warm weather as well as pristine natural environments comprising of beaches, coral reefs, spectacular scenery and friendly peoples have undoubtedly contributed to the development of the touris…
This study presents an analysis of innovation in the tourism sector of the Commonwealth of Dominica. The implementation of a questionnaire survey across a range of tourism sub-sectors yielded information on the scale of innovation activities, the characteristics of innovation firms and the internal and systemic factors that influence innovation. The key results of the analysis indicate that tourism businesses face a number of critical obstacles to innovation including challenging domestic economic conditions, lack of access to appropriate financing, weak customer demand, high cost of undertaki…
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una propuesta metodológica que posibilite el cálculo sistemático de algunos indicadores económicos utilizados en el análisis del turismo. La Organización Mundial del Turismo de Nacionales Unidas y la División de Estadística y Proyecciones Económicas de la CEPAL están llevando a cabo un proyecto de construcción de indicadores para el análisis macroeconómico del turismo a nivel mundial, con series de tiempo anuales desde 1980 y trimestrales a partir del año 2000. Los indicadores que se presentan en este cuaderno han sido concebidos como elementos que, e…
This paper analyses recent trends and future prospects in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), an incomplete customs union of 15 States in the Caribbean that includes most English speaking countries in the region plus Haiti and Suriname. In these small economies, the promotion of exports is of utmost importance, as in the medium term these are the only means to pay for the import of capital goods, intermediate inputs and technology necessary to build up their economic infrastructure. This study reviews first the progress made with reforms to complete the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) …
Tourism has been a very dynamic activity worldwide over the last fifteen years (until the 2008-2009 economic crisis);. Some developing countries have been very active in promoting this activity and have been successful. Among these countries are several from the Central American region, where tourism accounted for more than 8% of Costa Rican and Panamanian GDP in 2006. Tourism is a very broad activity, which includes leisure, business and family visits, but statistics for this region do not allow a distinction between these categories. Some countries are more specialized in leisu…
En los 15 años anteriores a la crisis económica de 2008 y 2009, el turismo había sido muy dinámico a nivel mundial. En algunos países en desarrollo se ha promovido activamente esta área con éxito. Entre estos países se encuentran varios de Centroamérica, entre los que se destacan Costa Rica y Panamá, pues en 2008, dicha actividad generó más de 8% de sus respectivos PIB. El turismo es una categoría muy amplia, que incluye el turismo de ocio, las visitas de negocio y las familiares, pero en general las estadísticas subregionales no proveen información para estos distintos nichos de mercado…
In the 1980s Butler adapted the life cycle product model to the tourism industry and created
the “Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model”. The model recognizes six stages in the tourism
product life cycle: exploration, investment, development, consolidation, stagnation and followed,
after stagnation, by decline or revitalization of the product. These six stages can in turn be regrouped
into four main stages. The Butler model has been applied to more than 30 country cases with a wide
degree of success. De Albuquerque and Mc Elroy (1992) applied the TALC model to 23 small
Caribbean island States i…
The main purpose of this paper is to explore and analyze the contributions that publicprivate
partnerships and public policy have made in the development of tourism in the Caribbean
as tools for enhancing competitiveness in the Caribbean tourism industry. The paper explores
these contributions mainly in the context of the upgrading strategies that Caribbean countries
have pursued over the past 15 years or so and using the lens of the tourism value chain and
tourism cluster approach. The paper also analyzes the potential roles that public-private
partnerships and public policy will continue to …
The main purpose of this paper is to explore and analyze the contributions that publicprivate
partnerships and public policy have made in the development of tourism in the Caribbean
as tools for enhancing competitiveness in the Caribbean tourism industry. The paper explores
these contributions mainly in the context of the upgrading strategies that Caribbean countries
have pursued over the past 15 years or so and using the lens of the tourism value chain and
tourism cluster approach. The paper also analyzes the potential roles that public-private
partnerships and public policy will continue to …
This paper will examine development challenges and new opportunities arising out of globalization in the tourism and financial services sectors, respectively in the ECLAC associate member countries.…
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una propuesta metodológica que posibilite realizar un cálculo sistemático de algunos indicadores económicos básicos utilizados en el análisis del turismo. Estos indicadores se concibieron como elementos que, a falta de cuentas satélites del turismo, permitieran dimensionar la importancia económica del sector en los países latinoamericanos, como asimismo, algunas de sus características más importantes desde la perspectiva de la oferta y la demanda.
El trabajo que se da a conocer en estas páginas forma parte de un amplio proyecto coordinado conjuntamente …
This study examines current trends in tourism and agriculture in Caribbean countries and
the strategy for linking them in order to facilitate their future development. The tourism industry
has, in the past, developed largely apart from other sectors such as agriculture. On the other
hand, agriculture has developed mainly to satisfy export markets. Domestic agriculture has had
limited development and has therefore been displaced to a considerable extent by food imports.
The recent promotion of agriculture tourism linkages is an attempt to enhance the local value
added of the tourism industry, w…
El turismo se ha convertido en la industria más grande del mundo y está en continuo crecimiento. De acuerdo a la Organización Mundial de Turismo, en el año 2002 se registraron 715 millones de llegadas internacionales en todo el mundo, lo que significó un incremento del 3,1 por ciento con relación al año 2001. Cifra considerable, si se tiene en cuenta que no considera los desplazamientos internos en un país (también llamadas llegadas domésticas );.
La mayoría de las modalidades de turismo dependen del ambiente natural para su existencia. Estas pueden pasar de un turismo de aren…
La necesidad de una planificación y una gestión estratégicas en el sector turismo devuelve vigencia al papel del Estado en el desarrollo sectorial, junto a los privados, y pone en evidencia el potencial que tiene la equidad de género en estos procesos. No obstante, en Ecuador la planificación estratégica a nivel cantonal ocurre en un momento de retracción del Estado y centralidad del mercado, con las limitaciones económicas y normativas que ello implica. En este contexto, los municipios pueden convertirse en referentes para la articulación de las demandas de diversos sectores poblacionales, ma…
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