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A multi-disciplinary project of this type can appear unnecessarily complicated, when confronted with a relatively simpler traditional holiday village.
This it not the case when taken into consideration that:
A conventional tourist village of the same number of beds, even if less attractive to the tourists, will be far more expensive to build and manage. In addition it will create less jobs and it will not qualify for international subsidies.
In a conventional tourist village if, for any reason, the number of visitors decreases it will cause massive financial losses. In our village it will perhaps slow down the growth but it will not cause losses at all because the exuberant personnel will spontaneously move to other activities within the village, boosting the supply of goods and services internally and to neighbouring communities.
The technologies to be utilized in this project are all simple, low cost and easy to learn even from an unskilled work force.
For the social value of the projects it will be possible to receive assistance from NGOs and Universities, while the same will not be possible in the case of a conventional tourist village.
A very large part of the working activities in the village will be directed to the production of goods and services for internal use. Even if those activities will reduce dramatically the cost of building and maintain the village they will not be directly taxable because they will not receive a monetary value but will be compensated in "exchange vouchers" for internal use only.
The VAT paid on goods purchased by the village can be redeemed against VAT received for services rendered to tourists, with tremendous economic advantages for the investors.
From the Government’s point of view this project is close to ideal because, without any direct cost, it will create a large number of permanent jobs. In addition it will maintain and protect local customs, attract international media positive coverage and bring to the country much-needed foreign exchange.
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