Tourism planning and innovation: The Caribbean under the spotlight
Abstract
The importance of the islands working together toward a multicentre product for tourists has been highlighted as
early as the 1980s, and yet hardly anything has been done in that sense. Can cluster be considered as the way
forward for the sustainable development of the Caribbean? This question could be considered as the first step of
the tourism planning process. Hierarchical method or linkage method that works by identifying entities that
match each other based on the investigator selection of similar attribute categories is the most suitable clustering
approach for the Caribbean. Despite the fact that cluster appears as a potential solution for issues faced by some
Caribbean islands and other destinations in the world, it cannot be seen as a panacea.