Bridgetown, Barbados (TAN): Tourism industry in the Bahamas has suffered significant damage by the category 5 hurricane Dorian that made landfall on Sunday on the Abacos islands with wind speeds reaching 140 mph (225 kmph), media reports said.
At least five people have died.
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) issued a statement expressing “full support of the Islands of the Bahamas and the Caribbean tourism family”.
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“However, as has been demonstrated so many times in the past, we have weathered many storms, we are a resilient people who refuse to surrender even in the most difficult of times, and we are confident that the people of the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama, with the full support of the Islands of the Bahamas and the Caribbean tourism family, will navigate the road to recovery together and emerge stronger,” the statement said.
With the Bahamas being an archipelago with more than 700 islands and cays spread over 100,000 square miles, the greatest impact of Hurricane Dorian is being felt in the northernmost islands of the Abacos and Grand Bahama, while most of the nation has been mostly unaffected.
