ABSTRACT
Tourism has emerged as a major force in the global economy, with most countries, whether developed or developing, having increasing opportunities to participate, as both host and guest, in this socio-economic phenomenon. The tourism sector in the Caribbean has assumed prominence as a result of consistent stagnation in the traditional economic sectors. The region has become so dependent on tourism that the governments and leaders of the Caribbean have finally and almost unanimously come to the view that tourism is anything from an important, to the most important, to the only means of economic survival for their states (Pattullo, 1996).
