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Un­usu­al ac­tiv­i­ty at ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has sparked fresh con­cerns for To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, with the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) warn­ing of po­ten­tial fi­nan­cial fall­out as the is­land ap­proach­es the Christ­mas sea­son.

As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean told Guardian Me­dia that ho­tel op­er­a­tors are fac­ing a dif­fi­cult and un­cer­tain pe­ri­od as vis­i­tors raise ques­tions about the re­cent US mil­i­tary land­ing in To­ba­go, the in­stal­la­tion of a new radar sys­tem at Crown Point, and US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s de­c­la­ra­tion that Venezue­lan air­space should be con­sid­ered “closed in its en­tire­ty.”

MacLean said the as­so­ci­a­tion is es­sen­tial­ly brac­ing for im­pact, not­ing that noth­ing about the sit­u­a­tion is with­in To­ba­go’s con­trol. “It is all out of our con­trol. We can make sug­ges­tions, but noth­ing will ma­te­ri­alise,” he said.