Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says he will meet with representatives from Airbnb in April to advance a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the entity and the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) in December last year. The Minister made the disclosure during a tour of the community of Trench Town in Kingston on February 23. The MOU seeks to establish...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says Jamaica is the only country in the world that has the distinction of chairing both executive bodies of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Mr. Bartlett told JIS News that he is currently the Chairman of the Board of Affiliates in the UNWTO and that former Tourism Minister, Dr. Wykeham McNeill, chaired...

Work is advanced to establish the Jamaica Centre for Tourism and Innovation, which will target training and certification for the hospitality industry’s labour force. This was disclosed by Portfolio Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, during the presentation of the 2016 Tourism Service Excellence Programme (TSEP) semi-finalists at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, yesterday (February 21). The centre aims to...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says Jamaica stands to benefit from billions of dollars worth of free advertising by hosting 157 countries and scores of overseas participants at the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Conference  in November. According to the Minister, Jamaica would be in no position to pay for the kind of international reach the conference has been...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says a major redevelopment project is being planned for the popular Montego Bay Hip Strip located along Gloucester and Kent Avenues. Speaking during a ceremony to officially open the Royal Decameron Cornwall Beach Resort in Montego Bay, St. James on Saturday (February 18), Mr. Bartlett said the reconfiguration of the Hip Strip will begin with...

Minister of  Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the United Nations World Tourism Conference (UNWTO), to be held in Jamaica in November, will be the biggest the country and the region have ever seen. He said heads of the two largest cruise companies – Royal Caribbean Cruise Line and Carnival Cruise Line – have now expressed an interest in participating, giving...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says a comprehensive development and upgrading of Montego Bay’s infrastructure must take place in order for the city to take advantage of the tourism opportunities that will come on stream over the next 50 years. Addressing the official opening of the Royal DeCameron Cornwall Beach resort in Montego Bay, St. James on Saturday...