ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the parallels between aviation links and links between country of origin and diaspora community. It uses the case of the Caribbean as a vehicle. Stephenson and Hughes highlight a general absence of recognition amongst tourism literature of ethnicity as a variable in tourist motivation. In general, the literature has tended to focus on travel associated with conventional forms of tourism to the Caribbean region, at an aggregate level, rather than unpicking the underlying nature of travel both into and out of the region along relationship lines. Based on the most recent data on migration provided by the United Nations Population Division the net-migration rate for the Caribbean is one of the highest world-wide, with a great variation within the region itself. An examination of the pattern of scheduled flights from Norman Manley International Airport helps illustrate the connections between home and clusters of Caribbean migrants abroad.
