Presentations - 3rd Growth and Resilience Dialogue With Social Partners

In a 2014 poll of UK Tour Operators*: • 90% said that clients often inquire about multi-destination holidays • But 84% are discouraged because of the high cost of regional air travel • UK tour operators believe they could deliver a steady stream of bookings for a reliable, safe, and inexpensive ferry • 70% of operators feel a ferry service could increase tourists to the Eastern Caribbean by more than 5% , over time

Tourists also

interested in a ferry:

* Driving Tourism in the Eastern Caribbean; the Case for a Regional Ferry: World Bank, 2015 (S. Brian Samuel, Rachel Shahidsaless, Julie Barbet-Gros & Trang Tran)