Haiti as a Tourist Destination, IMPOSSIBLE, Unless...
Haiti Open For Business
Are you ready for this?
REASON #1: Haiti is on the International list of the most dangerous places to visit!
There are no Bombs exploding in Haiti, no war, No rebels fighting to take over, yet... HMMMM....
Really... Wait til you see who else is on the list along with out little island Republic:
- Somalia
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- Yemen
- Central African Republic
- Pakistan
- Congo DR
- Palestine
- Sudan
Yep... And because Haiti is the list of most dangerous countries, I also discovered that many governments are "putting obstacles" in the way of their travel agents of their goals to sell Haiti as a tourist destination...
So... Being on that list, as far as tourism is concerned, is like having barbed wires around the entire country preventing tourism money from pouring in... No tourism... No Investors... No INcome... Poverty reigns supreme... And Haiti continues to be the POOREST country in the western hemisphere...
What the hell did we do to deserve this? Nothing really... Unless LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE is a crime!
I read an op-ed article about this that really WOWed me, you should read it, Haiti: Rebel daughter of Africa
Here is just a tiny excerpt from the article:
"When you are included in that league [the league of most dangerous countries], the insurance companies refuse to provide the umbrella of protection for damages, injury and medical coverage. The travel agents have both hands tied, unable to pour into Haiti the million travelers that cannot wait to visit the last vestiges of pre-industrialization, where the McDonalds and the K-Marts are not king and queen...
Haiti's descent into hell started with a quarantine imposed on the young republic in 1806 by the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. In between there was gunboat diplomacy and plenty of ostracism from Europe and from the United States. Closer to us Ronald Reagan, the president of the United States in 1987, told the tourist industry to avoid that country because AIDS is rampant and maybe endemic to the country. Yet AIDS was brought into Haiti by Canadians and Americans who found a fertile niche in the country with young boys with parents too poor to provide them with education and sustenance...
As a plague when it is affixed on your back, the characterization is difficult to be removed, and the governments of the western countries blindly follow the lead of the United States. As a self prophecy Haiti has been sinking since, into the abyss of renegade and predatory governments that were too corrupt to lead the proper fight to facilitate the removal of the country from the list of the most dangerous nations on earth..."
Question: How important is BILL Clinton in this equation?
The article suggest that "Bill Clinton, the nemesis of Ronald Reagan... the Cardinal Richelieu of Haiti imposed by the United Nations... must undo the harm done to Haiti by Ronald Reagan... He should start the worldwide campaign against the listing of Haiti as one of the most dangerous place on earth, starting with his own government, the United States of America!"
Take a minute to read the article: Haiti: Rebel daughter of Africa, It would be unfair and certainly ILLEGAL for me to copy and paste it here... That's how interesting it is... I promise you it will NOT be a waste of your time.
Now I want to ask you an honest question:
What will it take for Haiti to be OUT of that list???
Forget how we got in... HOW do we get out?
President Michel Martelly has launched a campaign dubbed "HAITI IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS" I hope the leaders of the world hear his cry... If Haiti is to PROgress in my lifetime, this HAS to happen... It MUST happen...
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All Comments (8)
Thank you Sir for this article, I've said it long ago that haiti was been plagued by the Western government.
The main reason based on my own research is not because they dont care, it's all about business.
Especially the Americans.
IN all this I see one thing ; WE ARE A BLACK COUNTRY THAT REFLECS PRESTIGE AND DIGNITY DESPITE OUR PROVERTY.
tHE OTHER WOLDS CAN NOT STAND OUR PRIDE AND THEY WILL TRY EVERYTHING TO BURRY US.
sO WE MUST DEPEND ON OURSELVES TO MAKE OUR cOUNTRY THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE.LET'S FOR A MOMENT THINK THAT WE ARE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND THAT WE DEPEND ONLY ON OURSELVES TO SURVIVE TELL ME WHAT WOULD WE DO ??.LET'S IGNORE THOSE BIGOT CALMITIES AGINST US ANS LET'S JUST BE HAITIANS.THE WHITE WORLD WILL NEVER SEE US AS WE ARE BECAUSE THEY ARE SO DEEP INTO THEIR DARK HEART TO RECOGNIZE HOW WE HAD HELPED SOME OF THEM GETTING THEIR INDEPENDANCE.tHEY ARE POURING MONEY IN OTHER COUNTRIES FOR NO REASON JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT BLACK.LONG LIVE
let's be true to ourself
would you invite some one to go with you on a vacation back home, could you promise that someone
in comletely disagree.
i think Haiti SHOULD be "open for business"
tourism could be a great contributor to Haiti's economic growth.
yo si telman pa respecte nou, min sa yo fe tout moun ap vini comme volonteer ki moun yo ye, etudian nurse, etudian doctor, just decan avion, antrer nan L'HOPITAL san okin experience pagin okin moun ki di rien, du tou parceke yo blan you nurse, yo doctor, le ou sorti Hiti enverite se nan restoran wa ale lave asiette, ou pa ka touche min pot l'hopital, or si ou vle pran mop la, bagay sa fem mal pagin you moun ki woue sac kap pase, pou di autan ocontrai yo boyo plis oportunity than prop pitit payi, ya, ki gin experiance yopa gin chance, se sac fe yap toujou gade Haitiam comme chien, parce que nou ce chien mange chien, nou ye, moin se you infirmiere graduated in Haiti if I go back to Haiti pa gin moun kap edem, poum ta ede prop nation moin yap pito ede you blanc, se pou pase par blanc pou ginyin you job nan prop payi natal ou, la preve est bien grande, moin rele bon samritan nan cite soleil pou you position yo dim sorry non, se group pa yo sel ki ka travail nan area sa, moin panse yo ta tande moin se desandan Haitian moin pale lang creol tou yo ta plis interse yo nooooooooooooooooooo se natif american selman alors mesami min cote nou tombe nan rete goumin tout jounin pou
si lakay pa van'n ou, peson'n pap achte'w pou mwen pami toute peyi dan le mond se selman you sel peyi ki pavle oue haiti develope;se sel american depi nan commansman kap jete toute kalite discedi sou po do pep haitian pou peyi a pa develope men yo toujou montre'w yo se pep ki pisansib pou haitien.mwen pa janmin kwe american le yo di yap ede ayiti, toute se blof se enteret yo yap defen'n se presiden american ki pibliez mesag yo dan le mon'n kon't ayiti sa yo di se sa ki
Dear, I have read your article and re-read it five (5) times.
I felt so so sad and at the same time extremely angry at myself, because each Single Haitian is guilty to what has happened to our beloved country.
First, to answer to your question (What will it take for Haiti to be OUT of that list???) MY ANSWER is simple; The government of Haiti should get a list of all countries that have put Haiti in this weird and unfair blacklist and give them 72 hours to produce proof of what they so called that HAITI is not a tourism destination.
I do not see this as an entirely bad thing.
Haiti should develop an economy free from the tourist industry which is reliant on the prosperity of other nations.
Too much competition and to much bowing down to other people's
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