In-person CTM planned for 2022

In-person CTM planned for 2022

Participants will be able to attend the 40th staging of Caribbean Travel Marketplace (CTM), the Caribbean’s largest marketing event, in person in Spring 2022. The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) gathering of buyers and sellers of the region’s tourism...
LOTS OF SHIPS

LOTS OF SHIPS

Buoyed by the arrival of half a dozen cruise ships in one week, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is pushing to add Kingston to the list of ports welcoming vessels. “The return of cruise shipping to our ports is further proof of the growing demand for our...
Spas get safety guidelines

Spas get safety guidelines

Operators in the spa sub-sector of Jamaica’s tourism industry are set to benefit from an operations manual developed to guide them in being safe, efficient and professional at what they do while tapping into the US$4.4 trillion global health and wellness...
DIVE RESORTS: 13 wins for SRI and Beaches

DIVE RESORTS: 13 wins for SRI and Beaches

Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts continue to raise the bar for all-inclusive dive resorts in the Caribbean, and their efforts have not gone unnoticed. They had 13 wins at the Scuba Diving Magazine’s 2022 Readers Choice Awards for the Caribbean. Each year, Scuba...
German tourists set to flood Jamaica

German tourists set to flood Jamaica

With a 134 per cent increase in booking volume from Germany between September and October 2021 Jamaica’s tourism officials expect the last two months of the year will outperform the numbers seen in 2019. And, with thousands of airline seats projected, the numbers look...