Bahamas Tourist Industry Hopes for Quick Comeback

Bahamas Tourist Industry Hopes for Quick Comeback
The Reef at Atlantis on Paradise Beach. Courtesy of Nassau Paradise Island Promotion
Reuters
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NASSAU, Bahamas—As rescuers search for bodies amid mountains of debris and the stench of death on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas, life on most of the archipelago’s 700 isles is little changed.

Cruise ships have pulled in and out of the capital and tourist hub, Nassau in the two weeks since Hurricane Dorian struck the northwestern islands, depositing foreign sightseers onshore to haggle for conch shells and T-shirts.