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Puerto Rico Tourism By The Numbers

Caribbean Visitors in 2011

Destination
Period
Tourist
Arrivals
AnguillaJan.-May32,829
Antigua & Barbuda
Jan.-May
114,479
ArubaJan.-Aug.595,155
Bahamas
Jan.-Apr.
467,603
Barbados
Jan.-Aug.
397,073



Belize
Jan.-June
140,616
British Virgin Islands
Jan.-May
175,131
Cayman Islands
Jan.-July
206,453
Cuba
Jan.-July
1,747,508
Curacao
Jan.-July
219,010
Dominica
Jan.-June
34,877
Dominican Republic
Jan.-July
2,712,307
Grenada
Jan.-June
56,208
Guyana
Jan.-July
89,899
Jamaica
Jan.-May
879,331
Martinique
Jan.-May
223,947
Puerto Rico
Jan.-June
781,362
Saint Lucia
Jan.-Aug.
212,486
St. Maarten
Jan.-March
134,025
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Jan.-June
38,378
Suriname
Jan.-Aug.
143,872



U.S. Virgin Islands
Jan.-Aug.
487,588

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/13/2500560/record-year-expected-for-tourism.html#ixzz1e3Atrhoq

Analisys

I bet we're spending more on tourism than everyone on this list and we're still getting our asses kicked. There has to be a better way! Why don't we want to be successful? If we could unite, I know we can do better. It's just that all signs point to more of the same. There is clearly collusion and soft corruption within the Puerto Rico Tourism Company and the Puerto Rico Hotels Association.

Corporations and governments are the key sources on unfair wealth distribution. I think if more people could get a larger share in the overall wealth distribution it would provide a more stable base to grow our economy.

But if there's more money available to us through the free market, and we don't go after it; what does that say about us? I for one, think the money spent on obvious boondongles within Tourism, should be spent on helping everyone on the island.

At one point I analysed the USVI budget, and they spend around 3-4 million a year on tourism, which includes sanitation and security. I recently heard that our Tourism budget seven-times that, at $28 million, and I heard a rumor that that was going to be doubling during 2012. "¡Mira como llueve antes de los elecciones!" Fifty Six million, and we might make it into third! Wow!

I wonder what the per capita rate is?