Justin Andrew, 29, Smith’s: “We need more stuff to do with adventure — we don’t have anything like skydiving, we barely have parasailing, things like that. We could do, we’re a very tropical place and people would love to have that but it would be expensive obviously. When I go away I do stuff like that. Another thing that can be done is sports on the beach for tourists. Like we have a volleyball thing that goes on every once in a while, if they can do something like that regularly with food and drinks that might be pretty good.”

Jamie Cox, 30, Virginia: “I would say, from all the places that I’ve visited, I think that the point of difference Bermuda has as an island is that it is very welcoming. I’ve only been here for 24 hours and I feel like I live here because everyone is just so welcoming and I don’t necessarily feel like I’m a tourist just as much as I’m visiting somebody’s house. My flight here was really reasonable and I was surprised so I don’t think that’s has that much of a factor affecting the tourism here.”

Assata Wedderburn, 21, Devonshire: “I think Bermuda needs a resort. I always say this because, all the other islands, they have these big resorts. We have nice hotels, but we don’t have a really nice resort where people can just come and stay in and not just enjoy Bermuda but enjoy where they stay if they want to relax.”

Bryant Trew, 43, Somerset: “I think Bermuda has to first and foremost look at its competitors. Until we understand what kind of competition we’re up against we’ll have no clue how high to raise the bar. We’re like living in a bubble. Our primary tourists come in from the US, and they’re mostly all East Coast, where there’s top restaurants for example. When they come here it’s like four or five that can compete but we’re bringing in people from a market that already has access to the greatest cuisine right down the street from where they live. Why do they have to come here? We have to recognise that if we have to bring people here we have to match our competitors.”

Edmond Shinah Simons, 62, Sandys: “Bermuda needs to bring College Weeks back. We need to open the Island back up to that. If we were to bring more college kids back it would open doors for everybody and that’s where you would get your repeat visitors. Those are the ones that come as youngsters, they see the Island, they want to come back here for weddings, honeymoons. So it’s everything in a nutshell. If college kids can’t afford to come to Bermuda like they used to that’s where the hotels and airlines have to work together to try to get the prices down because the prices are high for the rooms and travel.”

Nicole Botelho, 23, Smith’s: “I think the problem with Bermuda is that we don’t have any all-inclusive deals, especially for younger people. The average American student can’t come and afford these hotels so if they had deals that would allow visitors to afford a vacation here. They could also more unique activities to attract people to the Island like Cup Match and carnival because that’s basically all we have throughout the year. It doesn’t get too cold here so we should able to promote things that we do in the summer that can happen all year round.”