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St. Kitts also has another very good income stream,
which is education tourism. We have lots of Americans
come here to offshore universities, especially in hu-
man medicine and veterinary medicine. St. Kitts has
about four or five veterinary universities, with about
2,000 students, most from the United States, some
from Canada, and another source, Nigerians. Howev-
er, they leave here, they pre-qualify, and then they get
access back into the United States quite easily as the
reputation of these schools spreads. There are other
islands St. Kitts is looking at, too, for medical tourism,
where hospitals are thinking of setting up divisions
down here. Some of them, like Trinidad, started in
open-heart surgery. There’s an Indian group moving
into the Turks and Caicos islands with a 2,000-bed
hospital to do open-heart surgery for Americans that
may have half the costs of mainland U.S. Sports tour-
ism is also very important to us now.
BV: So, with the various different kinds of tourism that you
pointed out, what improvements in the business climate is
that going to provide as all of those grow and mature?
