Cathy Alberts, head of St Helena Tourism, is upbeat. If the forecasted 30,000 visitors a year materialize, the island, currently subsidized by UK taxpayers, could become self-sufficient.

Swanson; Photographs by Samantha Reinders Merrill Joshua, of St. Helena’s tourism board, dressed in full Napoleonic regalia to depict the island’s most famous resident. Samantha Reinders ...

We are helping St Helena overcome the challenge of being one of the most remote island communities in the world so it can develop its tourism industry and become financially self-sufficient ...