The Punta Cana Trap: How the Caribbean’s $7 Billion Tourism Engine Runs on Empty
Punta Cana was never a town. It was a closed-loop financial apparatus, built on cheap land, imported concrete and total isolation. For thirty years it worked because mass tourism is an industry that explicitly trades in predictable containment: taking the customer to a private airstrip, transferring them directly to a Spanish-owned enclave, feeding them calculated calories and flying them out before they noticed the country they had been standing on…
