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Who Collects Tax When a Platform Sits in the Middle

September 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Marketplaces, booking sites and delivery apps now stand between Caribbean sellers and their customers. The law increasingly decides who collects the tax by who controls the transaction, not by who owns the product. Sellers who assume “the platform handles it” are carrying risk they have not measured. Executive summary A single online sale can involve...

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Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

May 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the seven previous articles of this series, we have constructed the Digital Asset Governance and Assurance Framework — DAGAF™ — pillar by pillar. We have established the case for a Caribbean-anchored framework, mapped the foreign and regional regulatory regimes Caribbean enterprises must operate within, set out the architecture of the framework as a whole,...

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Engineering the Turnaround of a Regional Hotel Chain Facing Covenant Default

April 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

C | Context A regional Caribbean hotel chain had entered the zone of covenant stress. The chain had weathered the pandemic era with its portfolio intact, but only by drawing down working-capital facilities and by negotiating two sequential covenant waivers with its syndicate of Caribbean banks. The post-pandemic tourism recovery had brought revenue back...

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Tourism Under Threat: How Cyberattacks Are Quietly Crippling the Caribbean Hospitality Industry

March 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Securing the Caribbean Digital Frontier The Night the Reservations Disappeared A 280-room luxury resort and spa on the western coast of a popular Caribbean island destination was entering its peak season. Bookings were at ninety-two percent occupancy for the upcoming three months, and the resort’s management team was anticipating their strongest quarter in five years....

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Beyond Occupancy and ADR: How Dawgen CARI-VAL Tourism™ Supports Smarter Expansion and Refinancing Decisions for Caribbean Resorts

December 11, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Confidentiality NoticeDawgen Global maintains strict client confidentiality. The case study in this article is an illustrative composite, constructed from our documented methodologies, sector insights and anonymised patterns observed across multiple engagements. It does not use actual client data, nor does it describe any specific client assignment. 1. Why Resort Valuation Is More Than “What’s...

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Sustainable Production & Consumption in Tourism Supply Chains

October 12, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How Jamaica and the wider Caribbean can turn hotels, resorts, and experiences into engines of circular growth Why sustainable production and consumption (SPC) is now core strategy Caribbean tourism relies on the very ecosystems that attract visitors—reefs, beaches, forests, rivers, and vibrant communities. At the same time, resorts and attractions are intensive consumers of...

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Risk, Resilience & Disruptors: A Delivery Playbook for Tourism Under Stress

October 12, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How Jamaica and the wider Caribbean can keep visitor spend flowing—and local value rising—through shocks, surprises, and systemic risk Why resilience is now the core strategy Caribbean tourism succeeds in a world of volatility: hurricanes, heavy rainfall, droughts, sargassum blooms, pandemics, cyber incidents, supply-chain snags, commodity spikes, social unrest, airline scheduling shocks—you name it....

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Governance That Works: Coordinating Networks, Agencies, and TEF for Execution

October 12, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

An operating model to turn tourism-linkage policy into reliable, accountable delivery across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean Why governance is the bottleneck (and the unlock) Caribbean destinations already have promising ideas to deepen tourism linkages—local sourcing for hotels and cruise lines, curated community experiences, supplier upgrading, and data-driven management. What stalls is rarely the...

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Blue Ocean Meets Linkages: Designing Differentiated, High-Value Caribbean Experiences

October 11, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How Jamaica and the wider Caribbean can create uncontested market space by anchoring experience design in local value chains Why differentiation matters now Competition among sun-sand-sea destinations is intense. Competing only on price or generic amenities pushes margins down and increases dependence on imports. The antidote is differentiation—creating experiences guests cannot get elsewhere—powered by strong...

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Data-Driven Tourism: Building the Information Spine (TSA, STATIN & Dashboards)

October 11, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How Jamaica and the wider Caribbean can measure what matters—and use it to convert visitor spend into local wealth Why an “information spine” now Tourism policy in the Caribbean is ambitious: increase local content, strengthen Micro, Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises (MSTEs) and deliver inclusive, resilient growth. But ambition without measurement is hope. To...

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Who Collects Tax When a Platform Sits in the Middle

Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

Engineering the Turnaround of a Regional Hotel Chain Facing Covenant Default

Tourism Under Threat: How Cyberattacks Are Quietly Crippling the Caribbean Hospitality Industry

Beyond Occupancy and ADR: How Dawgen CARI-VAL Tourism™ Supports Smarter Expansion and Refinancing Decisions for Caribbean Resorts

Sustainable Production & Consumption in Tourism Supply Chains

Risk, Resilience & Disruptors: A Delivery Playbook for Tourism Under Stress

Data-Driven Tourism: Building the Information Spine (TSA, STATIN & Dashboards)

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