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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Introducing The Tourism ‘Crisis’ in San Andrés from Peak Travel.

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When two budget airlines collapsed in Colombia, tourism to the small island of San Andrés suddenly dropped. The travel industry makes up 90 percent of the island’s economy, and many worried this would spell a crisis for its residents. What actually happens to a popular destination when many of the tourists stop coming?

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0:00.0	San Andreas is a small island in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Nicaragua.
0:16.0	It's one of those typical Caribbean island that you can see in those tourist
0:22.6	brochures.
0:26.6	Laura Lopez Martinez, a professor in Colombia, has studied the island and its culture.
0:32.6	She says it's known for its beautiful beaches, boasting white sand and crystal clear water.
0:38.3	The sea is very blue, is known as the Mar de los Cholores, meaning the sea of the seven colors.
0:46.3	So it's very beautiful when you arrive by playing to see all the different changes.
1:03.0	San Andres is technically part of Colombia. It's been a domestic tourist destination for Colombians for decades.
1:09.0	The Razal people are the longest settled on San Andreas.
1:13.6	They've lived there for at least 400 years.
1:16.6	Rizal culture shares some similarities with other Caribbean islands.
1:20.6	You have a lot of reggae music in San Andreas,
1:24.6	reggae culture, and they had a long history with Jamaica, for example.
1:31.4	And just like other Caribbean islands, tourism is the main economic driver on San Andreas, particularly
1:37.3	its big hotels and all-inclusive resorts.
1:42.2	But a few years ago, a crisis struck the island's tourism industry.
1:48.0	Colombian low-cost carrier Viva Air has announced in the past day that it will suspend operations with immediate effect.
1:55.1	The Aerolina dejoice launches an SOS.
2:00.4	40% of all travelers arrived by Viva Air.
2:04.2	In 2023, Viva Air and Ultra Air, two budget airlines in Colombia,
2:10.4	suddenly went bankrupt, cutting the number of flights to the island in half overnight.
2:15.7	For the first time in years, tourism was on the decline.
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