Reassessing third world tourism: The case of Barbados

The tourist boom that has occurred since World War II has been fueled almost entirely by an expanding demand for travel in Western industrialized countries, where high and increasing levels of income and the convenience of rapid means of long‐distance transportation have made travel an increasingly wide‐spread habit. Because most Western tourists choose destinations in other Western countries, the boom has been largely a Western phenomenon, but some of the growing traffic has spilled over into other parts of the world. In the Third World, for example, such spillover flows have opened up new resorts in the Caribbean, as well as in Mexico, North Africa, East Africa and the islands of the Pacific.