Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has emphasised the importance of community tourism, noting that the sector is for everyone and not just for big investors or hotel chains. “It is for the people, for the communities, for the micro, small, and medium- sized business owners, for the craft vendors, the storytellers, the tour guides, and the farmers who supply...

Public Relations Officer at the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Sicourney Jackson, says that hosting this year’s Radio Remote event served as an opportunity to bring more attention to the island’s south coast. Done in partnership with Sandals Resorts, from January 25 to 30, Radio Remote saw the island receiving heightened promotion on more than 60 United States-based radio stations in...

Secretary General of United Nations Tourism, H.E Zurab Pololikashvili is scheduled to participate in the Global Tourism Resilience Conference and Expo, scheduled for February 17-19, 2025, in Hanover, Jamaica, highlighting the critical role of sustainable and adaptive tourism strategies in a changing global landscape. The United Nations World Tourism Organization now UN Tourism, is a specialized agency of the United...

Airbnb hosts in Portland are being urged to get their operations certified as tourist establishments and become compliant with the requisite governing legislation and regulations. This urging comes from Chief Health Inspector for the parish, Lorenzo Hume, who was speaking during January’s sitting of the Portland Municipal Corporation in Port Antonio. Portland is home to approximately 60 to 62 tourist...

The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) staged a Lean Canvas Workshop aimed is fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in the sector. Director of Research and Risk Management at TEF, Gis'elle Jones, told JIS News that the session, held on January 29, was conceived to fill a knowledge gap identified by the TEF within the sector. "Our strategic objective is really to increase...

A workshop to teach event planners how to navigate laws, secure sponsorships, engage their audience, and master marketing strategies to elevate their events, was held by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) in Negril, Westmoreland, on January 23. Titled, ‘The Event Playbook’, the workshop was the second to be staged in the West. The first was held in December last year...

The Jamaica Centre for Tourism Innovation (JCTI), a division of the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), has taken another significant step in enhancing the culinary arts subsector of the tourism industry by training evaluators to enable them to assess candidates for ACF certification. This marks an important milestone in the JCTI’s mission to promote human capital development in hospitality and tourism....