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Hoteliers in Negril are working feverishly to repair damage and get their properties back in shape for the winter season, which starts December 15. Several days of persistent heavy rainfall over the island last week, combined with a freak tornado, which hit Westmoreland on the evening of September 28, caused damage to several properties along the Negril west end. There...

The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) has embarked on a major promotional blitz in Canada to sell destination Jamaica. JTB's Regional Director for Canada, Sandra Scott, has said about 250 to 300 travel agencies are being targeted in each of the six major Canadian gateways, with the aim of increasing flights into the island for the upcoming winter tourist season. "We're...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett is optimistic of growth in arrival for the winter tourism season, which gets underway on December 15. He said that the Ministry has undertaken a promotional campaign, which should bear fruit during the upcoming winter tourist season, with at least a three per cent increase in arrivals expected by the end of the calendar year....

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has appealed to a Jamaican/Canadian charitable organisation to assist Grade Four students in the Jamaican education system. "Grade Four is that critical grade when you have to show mastery in numeracy and literacy in order to do well in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT)," Mr. Bartlett told patrons attending the fifth annual Jamaica...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has described the growth in tourism from Canada to Jamaica as phenomenal. "Three years ago, we were welcoming 163,000 Canadians to Jamaica, and last year we were just a few visitors shy of 300,000 Canadians," Mr. Bartlett told a packed room of over 200 Canadian travel agents, tour operators and airline partners, attending a...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has said that social media networks like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, have become an integral part of the country's tourism marketing strategy. Speaking on Sunday (September 19), during a panel discussion on the first day of the 2010 World Routes Development Forum in Vancouver, Canada, Minister Bartlett said that social media is not a...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, leaves the island today (September 17), for Vancouver, Canada, to make a presentation at the World Routes Convention, the largest assembly of Airline Representatives and Airline Planners. The convention is viewed as a very important meeting place for tourism stakeholders, where discussions are held in relation to all the airline routes of the world,...

Approximately 500 Travel Agents and Tour Operators got a first-hand experience of the offerings of Jamaica, over the weekend, through the 'Wish You Were Here' familiarisation trips, organised by the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) and private sector partners in the sector. They are the first batch of 2,000 Travel Agents, who will be brought into the island over the next...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding says the people of Treasure Beach, in St. Elizabeth, through their community consciousness, have made the area a major tourist destination. "The growth of this community, the extent to which its name has gone abroad and has become such a unique attraction for visitors to Jamaica, is partly due to ownership that the people...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett says the country's tourism sector is back on the path of growth in record time, following the downturn caused by the unrest in Western Kingston during May. In an interview with JIS News, Mr. Bartlett said that following declines in arrivals during May and June, the figures for July and August showed that they were...

With recovery in the Caribbean tourism sector now well established, travellers from around the world have been flocking to the region. Leading the way has been the luxury destination of Jamaica with Tourism Minister, the Hon Ed Bartlett, charting the course of a remarkable recovery along with colleagues at the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB). Despite a global drop in the...

Jamaica and other Caribbean countries will be working with other states and regions, such as India, New Zealand and Africa, to increase the pressure on the British Government to reform the Airline Passenger Duty (APD) regime. Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett told a meeting of United Kingdom (UK) based Jamaicans, that Caribbean Tourism Ministers have formed a coalition of "like minds"...