The Bahamas is the world’s ninth most expensive destination as measured by average nightly hotel room prices, with its workforce the fourth most reliant in the world on tourism to provide them with their jobs.
The World Travel and Tourism Council’s (WTTC) annual travel and tourism competitiveness monitor, published at the end of last year, said the Bahamas’ hotel price index, measured in US dollars, of $156.39, placed it as the ninth most expensive destination in the world.
The Bahamas was ranked 27th by the WTTC out of all the countries surveyed for its tourism infrastructure; 37th for its openness to tourism; 59th for its deployment of technology in its tourism industry; 61st on human resources; 69th on social issues and 91st on the environment.
Source: Neil Hartnell, The Tribune
