MASS TOURISM AND ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS IN BARBUDA

Abstract

This thesis contextualizes the ways that colonialist practices and climate change have influenced the tourism industry in the Caribbean with particular connections to environmental degradation and social inequity. The study draws primarily from the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in 2017 in Barbuda, to emphasize the manifestations of neocolonialism in the tourism industry in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the threat it poses to the region’s survival. The thesis offers climate policy adaptation strategies and alternative solutions to mass tourism in order to encourage sustainable and socially equitable action.