"Visit Haiti. Don't listen to what you see on the news," says Wilfrid Belfort of MWM & Associates in North Miami Beach....
Recent news from Haiti does not promise relaxation: Gang violence and kidnappings have surged in the capital of the Western hemisphere's poorest country.
But Belfort's Haitian-American-owned company sees increasing tourism as Haiti's best chance to improve its crippled economy and finally achieve political stability — a plan Haiti's new president also proposed at a Florida tourism conference in June. ...
Most tourists will likely heed a U.S. State Department warning discouraging travel to the Caribbean nation. More than 50 Americans, including children, have been kidnapped in Haiti in the past year, the agency says.
Sounds like a good enough reason for me not to go. Florida's got hurricanes, but at least it's in the U.S., so I might try there for a vacation. And, it seems good enough for Haiti's new president.
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