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Tourism: The economics of the all inclusive

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The number of all inclusive resorts is growing but do they help local businesses?

All-inclusive holidays now make up more than half of all package holiday sales in the UK for the first time, and across Europe and North America the amount of resorts available is growing. Rick Kelsey explores whether these resorts are good for local economies and communities.

Presenter / producer: Rick Kelsey Images: Sun loungers; Credit: BBC

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The All Inclusive holiday brings up a certain Geneseecois. You're not quite sure what you'll get,

0:35.4

but how they're seen is on the move.

0:37.7

I mean, right to the point now where it's, the all-inclusives are actually called,

0:42.1

you know, they've kind of gone from being a sort of poor cousin, if you like, to trending

0:47.0

on TikTok.

0:48.0

More at market, more locations, and no longer just see, sun sun and eat your body weight.

0:54.4

It was really all-inclusive, even to the point where you'd be on the course

0:58.5

and you'd see the little golf buggy bar driving down the fairway to coming off you some free drinks

1:03.8

and some free to sort of refuel you for your round, which was always nice as well.

1:07.8

So the whole experience was really, really sort of five star, I suppose.

1:11.1

But are they actually helping local towns and villages? Then there is the waste. All that food

1:17.5

and no pressure to eat it. We're very conscious that. We want to make sure that travel and tourism

1:21.9

is a force for good for local people, but they benefit from it. They welcome customers.

1:27.1

The last thing you want to do

1:28.4

is to see visiting tourists as adding no value to your life and in fact taking away a business

1:34.6

from your local bars and restaurants. So that's why it's important that we do work closely

1:38.5

with local companies. This is Rick Kelsey on this Business Daily on the BBC World Service,

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