Bahamas tourist industry hopes for quick comeback from 'Category Hell' storm


  • World
  • Sunday, 15 Sep 2019

FILE PHOTO: An unidentified helicopter lands to deliver food and water in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on the Great Abaco island town of Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Dante Carrer/File Photo

NASSAU (Reuters) - As rescuers search for bodies amid mountains of debris and the stench of death on the Bahamas island of Abaco, life on most of the archipelago's 700 isles is little changed.

Cruise ships have pulled in and out of the capital and tourist hub Nassau in the two weeks since Hurricane Dorian struck the northwestern islands, depositing foreign sightseers on shore who haggle for conch shells and T-shirts.

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