Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says Jamaica will be doing away with visa requirements for a number of Latin American countries, in an effort to attract more visitors from that region. The Minister added that Poland and a few other European countries will also receive exemptions. Mr. Bartlett was speaking to JIS News, following a meeting with tourism industry...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is optimistic of continued growth in tourist arrivals for 2017. Addressing a press conference at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St. James, on July 4, Mr. Bartlett said that the summer tourism season “has started with a bang”, a trend he is expecting to continue throughout the fall and into the...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says 87 new district constables will be deployed to the resort areas of Montego Bay and Negril on July 19. This is among measures being put in place to underwrite the safety and security component of the Destination Assurance agenda, which is being crafted in collaboration with stakeholders across the industry. In a meeting...

Government will be establishing Resort Management Units in towns across the island, beginning with Negril as early as September of this year. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, who made the announcement in Negril on June 24 in a meeting with tourism stakeholders, said the units will be established to provide a formal management structure for the country’s resort areas....

The Government is implementing measures to improve the security and cultural experience of visitors and boost the country’s ranking in world travel indices. This was disclosed by Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett during a meeting of the expanded Tourism Linkages Council at the Ministry of Tourism offices in New Kingston on June 23. He informed that Jamaica was ranked 76...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, is reporting growth in visitor arrivals and earnings up to May 2016. He said there were 1. 7 million visitors to the island representing a 6.7 per cent increase over the same period last year, with a 4.9 per cent growth in earnings at $1.1 billion. Mr. Bartlett was addressing the inaugural meeting of...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, on Wednesday (June 22), broke ground for the construction of a new ice cream shop at Devon House. The $27-million ice cream parlour, to be situated on the north lawns of the historic site, is slated to be completed by November. The project, which is being funded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) forms...

Immediate past president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Nicola Madden-Greig, says Jamaica’s tourism sector has all the ingredients to continue to grow and command a greater share of the world travel market. “There is really no country in the region that has the quality tourism product that we have,” she told JIS News in a recent interview....

Director of Tourism, Paul Pennicook, says the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) has launched a strategic summer advertising campaign, targeting several cities in the United States (US), particularly those with direct flights into Jamaica. The campaign, he said, includes buys on Facebook and Instagram where “we are now reaching markets that have eluded us in the past”. Mr. Pennicook, who was...