by LTC Writer | Jul 20, 2022 | Pulse
Chairman of the OAS Inter-American Committee on Tourism (CITUR) and Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett sees the need for an effective regional airline to boost tourism in the Caribbean. His call came at the opening session of the Organisation of American...
by LTC Writer | Jul 17, 2022 | Pulse
Tourism, Jamaica’s main economic engine, has grown exponentially since the island’s shedding of its colonial status on August 6, 1962. In fact, a closer look at numbers provided by the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) will show that the tourism sector has shown strong and...
by LTC Writer | Jul 16, 2022 | Pulse
Jamaica’s source markets for tourists are being further expanded and diversified to include several countries in Africa and the Middle East. Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett said the Government has engaged counterpart officials and airline executives in those regions...
by LTC Writer | Jul 14, 2022 | Pulse
Jamaica will host a high-level policy forum of the Organisation of American States (OAS) from July 20-21, to focus on safeguarding the region’s tourism sector from disruptions, including a looming recession. “It relates primarily to building resilience among the small...
by LTC Writer | Jul 11, 2022 | Pulse
From Westmoreland to Portland, Jamaica is ripe with investment opportunities in the tourism sector. That was the message Prime Minister Andrew Holness had for a delegation of more than 70 private sector players and government officials from Saudi Arabia who were in...