ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the nexus between Caribbean tourism and development, in terms of what needs to be considered as a progressive agenda of government and private sector activities. The central question is how to solve the many problems inherent in managing and controlling Caribbean tourism as part of an overall strategy of development. In particular, the needs of 'new tourism' should be separated from those of 'old tourism'. Governments need to be more active in their approaches to management of the tourist industry, in cooperative partnership with the indigenous (and even the external) tourist entrepreneurs, related industries and service sectors. Governments also need to be especially vigilant and responsive when tourism development agendas involve policy decisions that impinge on their wider responsibilities of land-use regulation, environmental monitoring, conservation, and control and infra structural management.
