New York (CNN Business) Hurricane Dorian is the strongest storm ever to hit the Bahamas, and the country will struggle to get its tourism-based economy back on track for quite some time.

Dorian has been moving slowly over the islands . The storm made landfall Sunday over the Abacos Islands as a Category 5 with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph. It has slightly weakened to a Category 2 storm. At least five people have died as a result of the storm.

path of the storm, which is The damage to the Bahamanian economy might be mitigated by thepath of the storm, which is currently crawling over the northern Bahamas . As a result, it is devastating areas with fewer hotel rooms compared to other areas of the country, according to Rick Newton, a founding partner at Resort Capital Partners.

The Abacos and Grand Bahama Islands have roughly 2,250 hotel rooms, which amounts to less than 15% of the hotel inventory in the country, Newton said. That's fewer than the roughly 11,000 rooms on the island Nassau, where mega-resorts such as Baha Mar and Atlantis are located.

"There will be a short term effect to tourism," Newtown told CNN Business, but he said that "post-hurricane countries can recover" citing Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands as examples. He said the next challenge will be where the money will originate to help rebuild those parts of the Bahamas.

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