Tourism On The Rebound As Antigua Works To Recover From Hurricane Irma

ST JOHN'S, ANTIQUA - DECEMBER 11: Tourists walk through a shopping district after arriving on a cruise ship in St. John's on December 11, 2017 in St John's, Antigua. While its sister island of Barbuda was nearly destroyed in Hurricane Irma, Antigua was left relatively untouched by the storm. Tourism today accounts for most of the small Caribbean country's GDP, both because of the income it generates from visitors as well as through the jobs it creates for its local citizens. Poverty is still a persistent problem for the island with disputed poverty figures as low as 12 percent of the population and as high as 35 percent. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)