[AngegepeM]

Very ironic, which is a word I have been using lately.

Right this instant, when I say your post, I happen to have a guy from the Alabama Gulf Coast here in my house, he is an old friend. He runs 5 parasailing boats, 400 beach chairs and a tour boat up there. It seems that he investigated the possibility of doing something in Punta Cana, and found the costs to be prohibitive.
In the first place, 100% (probably 98.5%) of your client base come in by air. So you can only attract them to your business by going through the hotels, and tour operators and they want a cut, big time.
In the second place the cost of getting your boats into the country would be very expensive. You can ask the boat owners on this board what their costs were.
And finally, the cost of doing business--employees, labor laws, Social Security and other issues were unclear, unfair or outrageous.

So he has stayed in Alabama...

Just so's you know.


HB