A small Caribbean nation helped popularize 'citizenship by investment' — now it's counting on it to make up for lost tourism

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• Secondary passports are in hot demand as coronavirus travel restrictions wreak havoc on tourism. 
• For tourist-dependent economies in the Caribbean, there's an opportunity. 
• Les Kahn, head of St. Kits and Nevis' "citizenship by investment" program, told Business Insider it's been key for making up lost revenue. 
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St. Kits and Nevis, like many of its Caribbean peers, is highly dependent on tourism revenue.

But with its borders still closed to foreigners, the small country's pioneering "citizenship by investment" program could prove even more important than it has been in the past three decades.

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