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06-01-2011, 03:40 PM
The director general of the Caribbean Hotel And Tourism Association (CHTA), Alex Sanguinetti, has warned that the increasing trend for countries to tax tourism is having a damaging effect on the number of tourists visiting the region. The hotelier was speaking at a press conference at the Dominican Annual Tourism Exchange (DATE 2011) in which the CHTA launched a publicity campaign that stresses the role of tourism in the heart of each and every country in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean is the region most dependent on tourism in the world, and the number of visitors has dropped by a million since 2008. Sanguinetti said that at a time when the number of trips is beginning to go up, a tax increase would be very counter-productive and would affect the industry's capacity to invest in new products and maintain its status. He said that the CHTA campaign is aimed a forging a public and private alliance that will recognize the importance of tourism in job creation, training human resources and generating economic progress. The campaign highlights some interesting points. For example, more than 10% of the jobs in the region are tourism related, 558,100 people in the Dominican Republic are employed in tourism and travel (one out of every four jobs in the country!), tourism and travel represent12.8% of the Caribbean GDP, more than in any other region in the world, and tourism and travel represents 16.7% of the GDP in the Dominican Republic, more than US$7.4 billion dollars.
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The Caribbean is the region most dependent on tourism in the world, and the number of visitors has dropped by a million since 2008. Sanguinetti said that at a time when the number of trips is beginning to go up, a tax increase would be very counter-productive and would affect the industry's capacity to invest in new products and maintain its status. He said that the CHTA campaign is aimed a forging a public and private alliance that will recognize the importance of tourism in job creation, training human resources and generating economic progress. The campaign highlights some interesting points. For example, more than 10% of the jobs in the region are tourism related, 558,100 people in the Dominican Republic are employed in tourism and travel (one out of every four jobs in the country!), tourism and travel represent12.8% of the Caribbean GDP, more than in any other region in the world, and tourism and travel represents 16.7% of the GDP in the Dominican Republic, more than US$7.4 billion dollars.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)