Empty resorts and beaches across Caribbean

Across the Caribbean similar scenes of desolation are being played out as the most tourism-dependent region reels from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since the coronavirus disease made landfall in several countries across the region, the once vibrant economic tourist destination has had to close borders, ground airlines, berth cruise ships and keep much of its usual visitors at bay.

“From the historic towns of the Dominican Republic to the isolated coves of Tobago, tourism employs an estimated 2.5 million people and generates — directly and indirectly — nearly one-third of the region’s economic output,” according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO).

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