Here in the West Indies we are inviting the tourist to shut out reality. So it isn't that he now goes to another country to meet people. He goes to a kind of air-conditioned Shangri-la fantasy world. (Sylvia Wynter, lecturer, University of the West Indies)
In London this week the West India Committee is holding a conference to discuss the problems of what has been called 'high technology tourism.' The traditional image of the Caribbean - an exotic cocktail of sun, sand, sea and sex-is under assault.
People in these small tropical islands are asking whether tourism inevitably means social disruption and further dependence on foreign capital. This has been recognised at an early stage in Dominica - this rugged, beautiful and unspoilt island may yet find another way.
(From Bristol)
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