Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Saint Lucia’s Tourism Gets Boost With Kindle eBook On Amazon.com

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why do we advertise more heavily than, let us say, St.Martin and the Cayman Islands; yet, these islands continue to outpace us when it comes to tourism.

Maybe we should try bringing our infrastructure up to their standard and we won't have to rely on gadgets like the Kindle, etc.

We are the one and only Helen of the West; we also have the annual St.Lucia Jazz; the ARC; two Noble prize winners; two airports; the Pitons, the only drive-in volcano, etc.; yet, we continue to suffer. Maybe something is fundamentally wrong with us.

January 4, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Anonymous said...

It's sad to agree with you on this subject blogger #1 - but THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH US!

As a youngster 40 years I heard this said about St Lucia from an expert in one of the most tourist-successful Caribbean islands and I denied it. Recently, I heard the same negative statement from yet another Caribbean tourist expert who said: “St Lucia will never develop because its people think small and are too backwards.”
Unfortunately, now I am beginning to believe those who laugh at us.

This so sad because St Lucia SHOULD be among the two or three most tourist-successful islands in the whole region - we have everything to make this possible!

January 5, 2012 at 2:27 PM
Anonymous said...

It is sad to agree with you on this point blogger #1, but you are right: there is something wrong with us.

As a youngster 40 years ago, an official of the tourist department in one of the most successful tourist islands of the Caribbean said to me that St Lucia would never make it big in the tourist industry, but I disagreed with him. Recently, I was having a similar conversation with another big playing in the tourist world and that expert also said we would never succeed because we think too small and will always remain backwards. After all this time, I am now beginning to believe what they laughingly say about us.

This should not be the case because with all that we have, by now St Lucia should be among the top two or three tourist destination in the whole region.

January 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Anonymous said...

"... with all that we have, by now St Lucia should be among the top two or three tourist destination in the whole region."
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Couldn't have said it better myself.

January 6, 2012 at 4:29 AM
Anonymous said...

Entering Port Castries or landing at Vigie gives one an out-of-this-world experience; but then, everything goes downhill from there.

January 6, 2012 at 4:35 AM
Anonymous said...

The truth is that it is the British that have to accept the blame - they left us poor, uneducated, backwards, and in the backwaters. Generally, the French and Dutch treated their colonies a little better, e.g., Martinique, Guadeloupe, Curacao and others. Racism was also part of this neglect. But that should all be in the past.
Let’s see what our new government will do for us now, or will our new PM blame everything on the current global recession/depression? He has already begun doing just that!!

January 6, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Anonymous said...

St Lucia is indeed small, but above all the government goes out of its way to make business ruinously expensive.

This is bi-partisan and concerns Labour and UWP.

Promises of concessions made before businesses are created are broken. Customs holds imports at the dock, blackmailing St Lucian businesses for money. There is rampart cronyism and a bloated civil service with no drive to take the country forward.

Things are even worse in that all islands play the same game, albeit to a lesser extent. The Caribbean isn't a single community, and has a worrying future based on the vacation whims of North Americans and the British (there is little to no chance attracting Brazilians to St Lucia, and even less of attracting Russians, Indians or the Chinese in interesting numbers).

The ineptitude of successive governments and the insignificance of the region means that St Lucia's talented youth will continue to flee wherever financial resources and education permit.

January 6, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous said...

minister tourism lorne rapist

http://www.slideshare.net/Dontvoteslp/the-stlucia-labour-partys-dark-star

January 6, 2012 at 6:58 PM
Anonymous said...

"... the British that have to accept the blame - they left us poor, uneducated, backwards, and in the backwaters."
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But they took care of business in Barbados; big time.

January 7, 2012 at 8:32 AM
Anonymous said...

Yes, they always take care of business in the islands that have a strongly controlling group of local whites. Barbados has always been set up that way.

January 7, 2012 at 10:57 PM

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