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Rodney Rose of the Charles Town Maroon Council (right), blows an abeng to welcome persons to the launch of a National Community Tourism Portal by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at the Devonshire, Devon House on September 28. Looking on are (from left) Tourism Specialist with JSIF, Beverly Stewart; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith; Managing Director at JSIF, Omar Sweeney; and World Bank Country Manager, Galina Sotirova. In the background (at right) is Marcia Douglas of the Charles Town Maroon Council. The National Community Tourism Portal is a web-based platform to promote registered community-based tourism enterprises in Jamaica.

National Community Tourism Portal Launched

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has launched a National Community Tourism Portal, which is a web-based platform to promote licensed community-based tourism enterprises across the island. The portal, launched at the Devonshire at Devon House in St. Andrew, today...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, highlights the performance of the sector since the start of the year, at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on September 20.

Ministries of Finance and Tourism to Take over Mobay Convention Centre

Executive Director of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD), Mrs. Christine Hendricks. (File)

Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) Commends Tourism Ministry

Chairman of the Tourism Linkages Council, Adam Stewart, speaking at the launch of a $1-billion loan facility to assist small and medium-sized tourism enterprises to upgrade their properties and attractions, at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort in Montego Bay on September 21.

Tourism Linkages Council and JHTA Welcome $1-Billion Loan Facility

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (left), and Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, share a moment with nine-time Olympic Champion Usain Bolt, at the official opening of the Usain Bolt Tracks and Records Sports Bar and Restaurant in Pineapple, Ocho Rios, recently.

Tourism Minister Looks to Capitalise on Olympic Success

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett.

10 years ago Tourism

Tourism Minister Projects Robust Cruise-Shipping Season

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says November will signal the start of a very robust cruise-shipping season, beginning with the inaugural visit of the world’s biggest cruise ship. According to Mr. Bartlett, Harmony of the Seas, the third Oasis-class ship in the Royal Caribbean fleet of luxury vessels, will join its sister ships, the Oasis of the Seas and...

10 years ago Tourism

Steady Growth in Tourism

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has indicated that the sector has seen steady growth in arrivals and earnings since the start of the year. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on September 20, the Minister informed that between February and September, preliminary figures have shown that more than 2.5 million visitors came to the island, with the country earning...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, outlining activities for this year’s observance of Tourism Awareness Week during a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank forum at the agency’s head office in Kingston on Tuesday, September 20.

10 years ago JIS Think TankTourism

Tourism Awareness Week Slated for Sept. 25 to Oct. 1

‘Tourism for All: Promoting Universal Accessibility’ is the theme for this year’s observance of Tourism Awareness Week (TAW), slated for September 25 to October 1. Several activities will be held to mark this year’s commemoration, which will incorporate the observance of World Tourism Day on September 27. These include a church service at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Falmouth, Trelawny,...

10 years ago Tourism

Dragon Bay Development Poised to Boost Tourism in Portland

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says Sandals Resorts International’s planned renovation of the Dragon Bay Hotel in Port Antonio, Portland, could serve to attract more visitors to the town and wider parish. Speaking with JIS News following the recent announcement, Mr. Bartlett said he was elated about the potentially positive prospects which the development presents. He noted that Sandals, which...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), is in light discussion with Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (left), and General Manager of Melia Braco Village, Dimitris Kosvogianni, at the post-World Travel Awards ceremony held at the hotel in Rio Bueno, Trelawny, on September 18.

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PM wants Doubling of Visitor Arrivals and Revenue

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has charged the Ministry of Tourism and other stakeholders in the sector to work to double visitor arrivals and revenue. Mr. Holness, who was addressing the post-World Travel Awards ceremony on September 18 at the Melia Braco Village in Trelawny, noted that tourism is one of the key pillars of Jamaica’s economy and...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, addresses the Island Routes Caribbean Adventures Conference, held at the Sandals Ochi Beach Resort, St. Ann, recently.

10 years ago Tourism

Tourism Minister Pushes for Repositioning of Kingston

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says Kingston has to be repositioned as one of the leading city destinations in the Caribbean. In an interview with JIS News, Mr. Bartlett said news that Sandals International Resorts will be constructing a high-end hotel in Kingston as part of its US$350-million hotel expansion plan is “certainly sweet music to my ears” “There...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, addresses the post-World Travel Awards ceremony at the Melia Braco Village, in Rio Bueno, Trelawny, on September 18.

10 years ago Tourism

Tourism Minister Attends World Routes Conference in China

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, will be leaving the island soon to attend a World Routes Conference in Chengdu, China, from September 25 to 27. In an interview with JIS News at the Melia Braco Village Resort in Rio Bueno, Trelawny, on September 18, the Minister pointed out that World Routes is the central meeting place for airline industry...