I have no problem with a country saying "we don't want visitors".
There are many countries like this in the world that make it
difficult or expensive to visit. North Korea comes to mind.

It is certainly their country, and they can do what they like.
However, they need to also accept the negative impact on the
local economy from the decline of tourism. That is a lot of
small bars and restaurants that go out of business, and a lot
of people who were waiting tables, cooking, cleaning, etc that
go back to subsistence fishing or whatever.

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as a country does not welcome
visitors, I'll go somewhere else. Not because I'm trying to
punish them, but because I don't enjoy the feeling of not being
welcomed.

Later,

Don W.


Terry Spragg wrote:


Hmmm, seems like it may be that the Bahamians are getting tired
of all the Yanqui invaders (among others, to be fair), despoiling
their nicer beaches with huge hotels the natives cannot afford
and whom's motorised competition and effluent ruins the fishing
inshore? Perhaps they fear becoming Tahitized or Cubanized?
Perhaps their democracy is actually working to the betterment of
"The People," most of whom do not benefit from or appreciate the
hordes of 'rich *******s' that keep trying to buy the very dirt
out from under their feet? Perhaps their reserves are getting too
crowded?

Punishing them by not going may be exactly what they want. How
much of "Their" Island still belongs to them? How much of their
culture actually remains? Don't take it as a personal insult,
just consider how you might feel in their shoes. Not the rich
business hotelier wanks, I mean the real people.

Let them charge what they want, you have no right to complain,
they have no duty to let all of you in. Pay up or stay home.
The result will no doubt be seen for what it will be. Time cures
all ills.

Are they actually crazy like foxes?