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St. Lucia
BUSINESS & MARKETING
Population: 168,458
Exchange rate:2.7
Major industries: agriculture, clothing, tourism, lime pressing, fishing, and many others
Language: English ( official), French patois
World wide webs: - http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2344.htm
www.stluciachamber.org/home.php
Special events that affect hotel rates:
The Marguerite festival
St. Lucia jazz festival
Types of hotels:
Resort hotels (20)
Suites hotels
Luxurious hotels
Vacation rentals (318)
Hotel (23)
Bed and breakfast (10)
STATISTICS
-Area in square miles: 239 sq. miles (( 3.5 x the size of Washington D.C.))
-Population density: 714 persons per square mile
-Birth rate: 26.5% / 1000
-Death rate: 6.4/1000
-Infant mortality: 15.22% / 1000
-Hospital beds/1000: 33 beds for every 1000 patients
-Ethnic distribution:
-black = 90%
-mixed = 6%
-East India= 3%
-White=1%
-Tourism income: tourism has developed quickly as a main revenue earner for the island, in some statistics it said that tourism left $879.3 million.
-Time zone: Atlantic Standard time zone. St. Lucia’s time zone is different from ours. Theirs is four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), but its 1 hour ahead of US eastern time ( EST)
SOCIAL STUDIES/TOURISM STUDIES
Brief History:
Saint Lucia is a small island in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands. It is by St.Marten According to some history, the Arawak Indians were the first to inhabit his island, how ever; they were conquered when Columbus discovered it sometime by the year 1499. It was contested by the French n the British for 150 years. Finally after a few u years, it ceded to the UK in 1814. St. Lucia remained an agricultural island, dedicated to producing tropical commodity crops even after slavery stopped in 1834. They go their independence on February 22, 1979.
Religions:
Roman catholic: 67.5%
Seventh day Adventists: 8.5%
Pentecostal: 5.7%
Anglican: 2%
Evangelical: 2%
Other Christian: 5.1%
Rastafarian: 2.1%
Other:1.1%
Unspecified: 1.5%
None: 4.5%
The most visited and known destinations in St. Lucia for tourist are:
-Castries
-Soufriere
-Vieux-Fort
-Gross Islet
-The inflation rate is 3 %
-unemployment rate` is 24.8%
-The transportation into or within the State or province is very convenient too. There are 2 airports; both of them have paved runways. The total amount of roadways is 910 km. There’s only 48 km paved though, and unpaved there is 862Km.
St. Lucia is very accessible for tourist, with hundreds of mini-taxi’s it is very simple to get around the island. Also since the island is not that outsized most of the places are near by.
SCIENCE
Natural resources:
-forest
-Sandy beaches
-Minerals (pumice)
-Mineral springs
-Geothermal potential
-Topography: volcanic and mountainous with some broad, fertile valleys
-Climate: tropical, moderated by northeast trade winds, dry season January to April, rainy season May to August.
-Traveling vaccines needed:
- hepatitis A
-Hepatitis B
-Rabies
-Typhoid
-tetanus
The tropical sunlight, heavy rainfall and the fertile soil, all combine together to produce plenty of tropical flowers, which include the hibiscus, Poinciana, frangipani. Etc. Mammals do exist in St. Lucia. However, reptiles also exist in St. Lucia such as small species of snakes, other than birds, bats take over the night in the forests of St. Lucia
The natural hazards of this island are volcanoes and hurricanes. Caribbean Sea, at 0 m, is the lowest point in the island. Mount Gimie at 950m is the highest point.
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