Desirable Tobago

Desirable Tobago

Tobago has won silver in the Most Desirable Island – Rest of World category at the 2022 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards. The win is being attributed to the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited’s (TTAL) ongoing strategy to revive interest in destination Tobago within...
New tourism investment thrust needed

New tourism investment thrust needed

As the global marketplace wrestles with the 40 per cent GDP loss in tourism and travel brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has called for a new tourism investment thrust to recover from the fallout. Prior to the...
TARGET:  30% more tourism workers each year

TARGET: 30% more tourism workers each year

Global tourism stakeholders have agreed on the need to increase sector employees by at least 30 per cent each year, part of a wider “paradigm shift” that is vital to attract, retain and adjust staff amid post-COVID-19 shortages. This is among the findings from a...
Cuba, Jamaica talk tourism

Cuba, Jamaica talk tourism

The continued push to reimagine Caribbean destinations and move to cement multi-destination tourism was the topic on the agenda during a meeting joined by Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett; Cuba’s Minister of Tourism, Juan Carlos García Granda and...
UK market doing well for Jamaica

UK market doing well for Jamaica

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has announced that the United Kingdom (UK) is the fastest growing recovery market for the island. Speaking at the November 7 launch of the destination’s new advertising campaign dubbed ‘Come Back’, Bartlett said the...