Economics & Currency
Debt, currency, fiscal policy and IMF programmes — and how each reshapes the unit economics of African tourism enterprises and destination receipts. The Corridor Index measures the proportion of tourism receipts that stay within national accounts versus the proportion that exits through foreign ownership, imported supply chains and offshore intermediaries.
A nation of 525,000 drew with Spain and took Argentina to extra time. Its tourists spend €41 a day.
Cabo Verde's World Cup run ended on 3 July, four matches and zero defeats in regulation after it began, and left behind a measurable global demand shock: US searches for a Cabo Verde vacation up more than 5,000 percent, Expedia up 800 percent, TUI doubled. That attention now travels toward a tourism economy built long before anyone was watching — 80 percent of bed-nights on two of nine inhabited islands, seven European countries supplying 70 percent of arrivals, and €41 of daily visitor spend staying onshore against €238 in the Canary Islands. The Corridor Index asks what a demand shock is worth when the conversion machine belongs to someone else.
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