The continued recovery of the UK economy, growing at 2.9 per cent in 2014, spurred outbound tourism to record highs in 2014. At 0.2 per cent, Barbados endured its seventh year of GDP growth below 1 per cent in 2014 (World Bank 2016a). Trinidad and Tobago, the second largest Caribbean small state by GDP, saw growth fall from 1.7 per cent in 2013 to 0.8 per cent in 2014 (World Bank 2016a).