Want to Keep Tourists Away? Keep Flying Solo

• Tác giả: Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 387.7 Air transportation
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank Group, Washington, DC, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 291232
• Chủ đề: 1. CONSUMPTION; 2. DESTINATIONS; 3. DRIVING; 4. HUB; 5. TRAVEL

Tóm tắt

The island states of the eastern Caribbean are wastefully competing with each other for the lucrative, yet stagnant, stay-over tourist trade by 'flying solo': separately building long-haul airports and agreeing to expensive bilateral subsidy deals with airlines.1 Instead, they could vastly increase their tourist revenue and lower their costs through collaboration to remove barriers to inter-island travel. The linchpin of such joint efforts will be a hub-and spoke airline system that funnels stay-over tourists to the edge of the region and then allows them to easily fly to their final destination.