Tourism in Haiti

Running Head : TOURISM IN HAITI

Tourism in Haiti

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The Haiti earthquake was not only one of those humanitarian catastrophes that have been witnessed in the recent years but it was among the most devastating and hopeless blows to all the efforts that were meant to put back Haiti on the main tourism map . The main disappointment and irony of all this is that the earthquake came just as soon as Haiti was recovering and showing some signs of recovery from its usual myriad criminal

and political crises as well as achieving stability so that the visitors could be welcomed back again . Haiti hence had no choice than to deal with loss of thousands of its citizens as well as the destruction of the infrastructure for example utilities buildings and roads that were quite far from what can be termed as ideal even before the earthquake . Haiti was in its verge of capitalizing on its clear weather as well as the tropical scenery in order to attract the tourists when the 7 .0 magnitude of earthquake rocked the country killing many people and living others homeless (LLC , 2010 . Tourism can be the main vehicle which will help Haiti people to refute from going back to their usual condition and hence go into a much better condition than the one they were . Because of the incident , Haiti now has a reputation for instability and danger . The country has hence being given the worst rap . Environmental problems , crimes as...