[grania]

On those small islands, don’t the tourists experience the local culture on their own? That wouldn’t be the “all-inclusive” situation where most tourists don’t leave hotel grounds.

[gr8eman]

On small islands there really is not a lot going on except the beach. The hotels normally take care of the beaches that are part of, or near the hotel, which also normally have pools. The demand stems from the dark days of winter in Europe when the sun may come up at 9:30 in the morning and set around 4 PM, IMO.

Most Europeans won't be able to afford to rent a car, so they just stay at the resort as the packages include bus transfer from the airport.

The hotels do have tours you can go on, but usually the all-inclusive hotel is the way to go for normal over-taxed Euro folks.

Why this d-bag wants to go after them can be only explained by political reasons. It's a slim market IMO, as the tour companies in UK and Euro-mainland likely get a percentage of the hotel take, as the low travel costs are attractive to pull customers in and the profit is probably made on drinks, incidentals, etc.