I guess we have not figured out that paradise is not a place but a state of mind....I cannot agree that tourist are bad. I have traveled around several if The Islands and one thing they have in common for sure is poverty. A commonanality with that is forget tourism but look at some failed industry....Sugar is the one that comes to mind first...In the early part of the 20th Century sugar cane was grown all over the Caribbean and sent to be refined and sold to candy makers and soft drink companies. Lots of it sold by the pound in the stores... Several years ago sugar became evil and the market crashed as corn became a supplier for sweetners in candy and soda..

Then baxuite found it's way to the market to make aluminum...This created mining and very ugly country sides but much like Disney Land folks stood in line to get a job in the cane fields and in the bauxite mines. It was the Jamaican Tourist Board that really made Tourism jump with those "Come back to Jamaica" ads... Tourism is not all bad and can add money to a failing economy and give jobs that get you more than a pass on Space Mountain...I was in Jamaica this summer and traveled intothe mountains to a pretty good size town called Browns Town...no reason to go there other than see a Jamaica that you don't see on Beach Road. while riding up there the driver had a different view of tourism tha the folks on here that the folks that jump on the charter and run up and down Negril Beach...He pointed out that much of the activity we saw at the largest open market I have ever see was due to the jobs