Tourism Challenges and the Opportunities for Sustainability: A Case Study of Grenada, Barbados, and Tobago

Tourists travel to the islands of Grenada, Barbados, and Tobago to bask in the sun of these islands’ pristine beaches. This resulting business of tourism provides the catalyst for these host countries to deliver a valuable holiday experience and the dichotomy of the negative impacts created by the very tourism industry. This paper presents three islands whose reliance on the tourism industry has stimulated economic growth, socio-cultural benefits, and environmental preservation along with the negative impacts of environmental degradation, cultural dilution, and economic leakages. Key to this research is the management of those challenges through sustainable tourism opportunities involving various stakeholders and their role in minimizing economic leakages, social inequity, and environmental degradation.

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