The way we borrow is not of ease said Nicolas Sarkozy

Miss France stronger than Nicolas Sarkozy Bikini with flowers, the 37 applicants for the 2010 title come to the buccaneers, the martinican village of Club Mediterranee, a stay of intense preparation to the election which will take place Saturday, December 5, on TF1. Caribbean tourism professionals are waiting that the dissemination of a quarter of an hour of images stained this internship helps meet Martinique and Guadeloupe, many blackened in the eyes of the customer, greater than 80.

Nearly a year after the start of the strikes which have forty days paralyzed local activity and flee permanently vacationers, the local business community are not only to be convinced that the economic recovery of the French islands of the Caribbean must be articulated around a long marginal tourism become moribund. Exposing Friday 6 November, at the end of a specific Interdepartmental Council, the new policy of the overseas, the head of State, Nicolas Sarkozy, made no secret that the tourism industry should be the cornerstone of a model of endogenous development.

The objective is that Martinique and Guadeloupian fewer on purchases of the metropolis, State aid and subsidies from the European Union, and find their own levers of development of an economy sustained hard by banana, housing construction and public works. These traditional activities are step of the way forward for the French Caribbean. Here are a few days to the WTO agreement between the European Union and Latin American countries confirms that Caribbean bananas, whose transport is already funded by the EU, will have to face increasingly fierce competition in the years to come. As real estate development, it is artificially drawn by major schemes exposed to the risk of a general revision of the tax niches.

Next to the diversification of a monoagriculture, for example by developing the production of juice, guava, and of the exploitation of natural resources, making geothermal energy the main energy of these islands, the island tourism resource is required as evidence. Not yet an emergency.

"The way we borrow is not of ease", said Nicolas Sarkozy. Could not be better to say. Hervé Novelli, Secretary of State for tourism and SMEs, and Marie-Luce Penchard, Minister of it overseas, measured the difficulty of the task, in situ, on 12 and 13 November. Instead of continuing to invest in vain-400 million euros were spent twenty years in tourism in Martinique, to offer qualitative and quantitative indigent woman-, the State will now play the facilitators.

The extension for one year of the moratorium on part of the employers, social and fiscal debts, should avoid the worst to hoteliers that address high season rates reservation down 25 officially, sometimes 50 in reality. After closed its two villages of Martinique and Guadeloupe, Club Med is income, on the edge of the feet, without exploiting itself the Buccaneers. The announcement of an easing of the visa allocation policy, effective December 1, to the South and North America is intended to reduce the dependence of Caribbean Tourism to the city.

Finally, the prospect of the opening of an airline from Roissy, in 2011, to drain a European customer, should use prod because it is conditioned on the existence of a substantial offer. Or, economic, political and cultural, the brakes to the development of a Caribbean tourism industry remain numerous. On-site, Hervé Novelli made no secret to his interlocutors that the concern of investors was not dissipated. Eight months after the end of the conflict, in departments where seven to eight years of falling unemployment was deleted a few months, the social climate remains very tense. And the end of the freezing of prices of fuels poses a permanent threat of violent conflict.

For their part, local politicians seem to be slow indeed to seize pole mounted by the Government. While the Caribbean Tourism delay is already considerable, no development strategy only emerges. It is particularly flagrant in Fort-de-France, where the Martinique Tourism Committee simply to deplore the absence of major international investors. But their arrival is really desired in a region where the autonomist movements and, especially, pro-independence see tourism as an advanced economic form of neocolonialism

To make this industry a priority of development, questioning a Caribbean identity constructs, today, in an exorcism paranoid of slavery, but serving a good vein policy. Pro-independence President of the Regional Council, Alfred Marie-Jeanne Martinique maintains silence on the tourist issue. Guadeloupéenne, Marie-Luce Penchard calls safely hers to pushing this taboo: "we fear to show collectively we want to make tourism a priority", it launched to them. Yet, it would put an end to a strange Island Singularity: with Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe are the only two islands of all the Caribbean arc to not live tourism. Even Cuba of Fidel Castro is converted.