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Serving international travellers and taking their money in exchange is much easier than bootstrapping new economic activities for the 10% of the population who

• worik 6y ago
  Heaps. We are very short of horticultural labour. With the use of modern machinery horticultural workers are getting very productive. It is hard to increase tourism workers productivity with technology.... We are very short of infrastructure workers, ditto. Even for unskilled jobs we have to import workers. There is a lot of work available, and no need for the low skill low productivity tourism jobs. It was wrecking our economy and the opportunity of the tourism collapse will be a boon across the board. The sad part is all the small operators that have built up on the margins. These businesses will collapse too, taking people's life savings and hard work. That is sad.