Effect of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on the tourism industry in countries of the Caribbean Community

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Martin González-Rozada, Elisa Prieto-Lara, Guillermo A. Sandoval
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2022
• Subjects: smoke-free environments; smoking; public policy; tourism; caribbean region; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2022.146; https://doaj.org/article/1c73ba4552924d39890be9828f575395

Objective. To assess whether the introduction of comprehensive smoke-free legislation affected tourism in four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Methods. We compared the evolution of three tourism variables – tourist arrivals, tourist expen...