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Macron says wants to diversify away from Tourism
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fre...bean/ar-AArQZEiMacron say will rebuild differently to deal with hurricanes and topograpghy of island. Also, wants to diversify away from tourism as sole industry.
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Re: Macron says wants to diversify away from Tourism
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Ritchard said: Call centers? Possibly, but I can think of two issues. First, lots of competition from almost everywhere else in the world. Two, to build even the most modest commercial space to any sort of hurricane-resistant standard will involve a real cost disadvantage, particularly when coupled with the transportation costs.
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Re: Macron says wants to diversify away from Tourism
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KenW said: Possibly, they could go the way of Mauritius and establish a free-trade zone that would encourage manufacturing and finance. Isn't the island already a "free trade" zone?
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Re: Macron says wants to diversify away from Tourism
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There are a couple of replies to this post that were removed as another poster made a political comment and when I removed it they went also. Feel free to post again but there will be NO political references, Canadian, US or otherwise.
Thank you.
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Re: Macron says wants to diversify away from Tourism
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IslandLover74 said: They should build a cement factory and have a regional shipping hub for it. There will be a huge demand, not only on SXM, but on surrounding islands for years to come. Mother Nature will unfortunately keep the demand going. Do they have limestone there to make concrete cement?
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Re: Macron says wants to diversify away from Tourism
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Actually, there was some sort of cement/concrete plant near Royal Palm but it has been history for several years. I think they produced concrete block.
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