'Punitive' airfares damaging Exuma

Wed, Oct 27th 2010, 11:00 PM

By ALISON LOWE Business Reporter alowe@tribunemedia.net Exuma is an "underperforming asset" in the Bahamian tourism portfolio, hurt by the "almost punitive" air travel costs to the island, which see visitors pay some 250 per cent more to reach it from New York than they would to get to Nassau, the director-general of tourism said yesterday. However, were this issue to be addressed and certain elements of the islands "polished up", the chain of cays "would experience tourism growth so dramatic that it is unparalleled in this region", suggested David Johnson at the Exuma Business Outlook 2010 seminar, hosted at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort in Exuma yesterday ...

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