Holder believes the root of this problem stems from race, colonialism and slavery. Disaffection among hotel staff is sometimes expressed in such terms. A hotel nurse, for example, told me how the staff had to eat their lunch under a tree, like we were back in massa s time . The gulf between visitor and local becomes even more acute when hotels import supplies, ignoring the society outside the perimeter fence except as a source of labour. History is once again partly responsible.
Agriculture is export-orientated and always has been.
Their attempts foundered, in part because antagonistic American governments, in the context of cold-war politics, encouraged tourists to stay away.