Currency exchange rates across the 21-country European Union are prompting international travelers to look elsewhere this summer.

The Caribbean region is facing continuous challenges to development –however, as new research released this month from the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) shows, there are substantive and relevant policy prescriptions to current economic governance problems.

At a time when bank accounts and stock portfolios are draining, the high-end hotel business might be expected to be losing its fizz.

While the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup may have helped economic expansion, boosted infrastructure investment and furthered functional cooperation across the region, many in the tourism circles did not reap the kind of dividends they expected from the sporting spectacle because of the unexpected early defeat and exit of major cricketing nations such as India and Pakistan and the absence of traditional winter visitors, many of whom who chose to stay away from the Caribbean during the Cup’s staging.

As the economy weakens, the $750 billion-a-year travel industry is trying to find new ways to promote incoming international travel.

Caribbean Web marketing politics cannot escape the already heavily sexually driven signature of Caribbean culture in export. The Internet’s already sexually coated and undergirded pop-up construction makes it an almost ideal location for the playing out of some Caribbean stock symbols. It is true that notions of the Caribbean have been forged and established over time.