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Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), engages with Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (centre) and Chief Executive Officer, National Rums of Jamaica, Winston Harrison, on day two of the Jamaica Rum Festival on Sunday (March 10) at Hope Gardens, St. Andrew.

Tourism Ministry to Help Train 2,000 Bartenders

The Ministry of Tourism will be assisting with the training of some 2,000 bartenders in the next fiscal year to meet the demand by cruise lines and other entities. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the bartenders will help with...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, emphasises a point while addressing a ceremony to announce the 2018 Tourism Service Excellence Awards (TSEA) finalists, at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (March 12).

Tourism on Track to Become Fastest Growing Sector

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (centre), shares pleasantries with Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) Executive Director, Dr. Andrew Spencer (left), and Director General in the Tourism Ministry, Carole Guntley, during a ceremony to announce the 2018 Tourism Service Excellence Awards finalists, at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston, on Tuesday (March 12).

Government and UWI Discuss Further Training for Tourism Workers

Tourism Pension Scheme to be Completed Shortly

Chief Executive Officer of the Port Authority of Jamaica, Professor Gordon Shirley (left); and Senior Advisor/Strategist in the Ministry of Tourism, Delano Seiveright (centre), converse with Chief Executive Officer of Royal Caribbean International, Michael Bayley, during a meeting in Kingston last week.

Ian Fleming Airport Expansion Deemed Pivotal to Tourism Growth

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (left), greets operators of the Grand-A-View Restaurant and Event Place, Carl Erskine (second left) and Barbara Erskine, at the opening of the restaurant in Montego Bay, St. James, on March 9. At right is Mayor of Montego Bay and Chairman of the St. James Municipal Corporation, Councillor Homer Davis.

7 years ago Tourism

Jamaica Welcomes One Million Visitors in First Nine Weeks of 2019

Tourism Minister Hon. Edmund Bartlett says Jamaica has welcomed one million visitors to its shores in the first nine weeks of 2019. He said this has provided foreign exchange earnings of approximately US$800 million. “The industry is now at the peak of its growth, and the beauty about us in tourism is that we make new peaks… because we are...

7 years ago Budget 2019/2020Tourism

Earnings of US$3.6 Billion Expected from Tourism

The Government is projecting gross earnings of US$3.6 billion from the tourism industry for the 2019/20 fiscal year. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, told the Standing Finance Committee of the House on March 4, that the country is expected to have some 4.584 million visitors for the financial year, with stopover arrivals at 2.875 million and cruise arrivals of...

Chair of the Gastronomy Tourism Network, Nicola Madden-Greig (left); converses with (from second left), Director of the Tourism Linkages Network, Carolyn McDonald Riley; Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Peter Thompson; and Senior Director, Coffee Division, Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Hervin Willis. Occasion was a trade development workshop on Friday (March 1) at the University of Technology (UTech), St. Andrew, to kick off the second annual Blue Mountain Coffee Festival being held from March 1 to 3 at Newcastle, St. Andrew.

7 years ago AgricultureTourism

Trade Development Workshop Kicks Off Blue Mountain Coffee Festival

The second annual Blue Mountain Coffee Festival kicked off on Friday (March 1), with a trade development workshop for farmers, processors and retailers at the University of Technology (UTech) campus in Papine, St. Andrew. The session featured several seminars and networking sessions facilitated by representatives from the Tourism Linkages Network (TLN), Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Newport- Fersan Jamaica Limited, among...

Executive Director of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), Dr. Andrew Spencer, speaks at the agency’s ‘Tourism Youth Expo and Career Fair 2019’, held at the Negril Hills Golf Club in Westmoreland on Tuesday, February 26.

7 years ago TourismYouth

High-School Students Learn About Tourism

More than 140 high-school students from western Jamaica were exposed to the importance and impact of local tourism during the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) ‘Tourism Youth Expo and Career Fair 2019’. The event was held at the Negril Hills Golf Club in Westmoreland on Tuesday, February 26, and falls in line with the Ministry of Tourism’s fifth pillar of...

Regional Manager of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Odette Dyer, delivering the keynote address on behalf of Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, at the Hyatt Hotels’ Eminence Staff Awards at Hyatt Ziva/Zilara Rose Hall Resorts, Rose Hall, St. James, on Tuesday February 19.

7 years ago Tourism

Tourism Minister Projects 41,000 New Jobs by 2022

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is projecting that the tourism sector will provide 41,000 new jobs by 2022. In his speech, delivered by Regional Manager of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Odette Dyer, at the Hyatt Hotels’ Eminence Staff Awards at the Hyatt Ziva/Zilara Rose Hall Resorts in St. James on February 19, Mr. Bartlett said with the continued unprecedented...

7 years ago Tourism

Stopover Arrivals Up 10.2 Per Cent

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says 2019 is shaping up to become another record-breaking year for stopover arrivals. Preliminary figures for airport arrivals for the seven-week period from January 1 to February 17, show the number of visitors at 320,602, which is an increase of 31,172 or 10.2 per cent over the corresponding period last year. The bulk of...

Governor-General
His Excellency The Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J

7 years ago Budget 2019/2020Tourism

Loans for Micro-Sized Tourism Enterprises

Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, says that starting 2019/20, the Government will begin offering loans of less than $5 million to micro-sized tourism enterprises. The Governor-General made the announcement during his Throne Speech to open the new legislative year in Gordon House on Thursday (February 14) under the theme ‘In Partnership towards the new prosperous Jamaica’....