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Michael Fossler's avatar

If your major industry is tourism, and you have disdain for tourists, you have a problem. The Caribbean is a big area-there are many other countries boaters can go to.

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Mark's avatar

The small boat cruising segment of their vast tourism industry is a rounding error compared to all other forms of tourism.

Yes, there are other places to go in the Caribbean, but none offer what the Bahamas offers.

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Michael Fossler's avatar

If that were true, then why charge at all? I don’t believe it.

And, let’s face facts-people go to the islands for the weather, and the weather is interchangable

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Mark's avatar

They charge because there are costs associated with people taking their small private boats there.

And, people go there for many reasons other than the weather - LOL.

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Michael Fossler's avatar

Then why are so many locals complaining, if it doesn’t matter?

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Mark's avatar

Did you read the article?

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Michael Fossler's avatar

Yes, I did, especially the part where the guy talked about people cancelling reservations which was going to impact hi livelihood, which blows up your stupid “ it doesn’t matter “ theory.

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Joe N Clement's avatar

Looks like I'll be staying in south Florida this year, although the high price and anti-boat sentiment is pretty big there.

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Mark's avatar

This is exactly what happens when people get on social media to complain:

"Echoing the Bahamas Prime Minister’s own anti-American boater rhetoric, much of the Bahamian response on social media was a collective “good ridance, you cheapskates,” accusing foreigners of taking their fish, polluting their waters with sewage and messing up the seabed with our anchors."

All cruisers have manage to do here is piss off the locals even more - the people who vote for the officials who make these rules.

Several of the social media posts were highly disrespectful of Bahamian government officials, while there was a lot of chest-pounding about how cruisers "help" the economy.

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Peter Swanson's avatar

That government is lucky that it's not part of a bigger government. It shows signs of being a criminal enterprise operating unchecked

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Mark's avatar

Don't they all, to some degree?

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Peter Swanson's avatar

Not all, and certainly not to the degree that we are seeing in Nassau.

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Mark's avatar

We will have to agree to disagree.

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