Lots of fun and exciting activities are in store for patrons attending the sixth annual Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival on Saturday (March 25) in Newcastle, St. Andrew. Director, Tourism Linkages Network, Carolyn McDonald Riley, told JIS News that the event will feature diverse coffee by-product displays, including candles, rubs, scrubs, and foods. “We will [also] be having a mixology...

Approximately 29 per cent of the 2.6 million stopover tourists visiting Jamaica in 2022 had the privilege of immersing in the country’s sharing economy experience, most notably the Airbnb accommodation subsector, according to Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. The sharing economy is a socio-economic system whereby consumers partake of the creation, production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services....

Tourism buyers and local manufacturers and suppliers in the sector, came together to explore business opportunities at the Tourism Linkages Network’s Speed Networking event on Thursday (March 16). The Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall was the venue for the annual business activity, which aims to connect buyers directly with providers of tourism goods and services. Speed Networking, which...

The annual Speed Networking, hosted by the Tourism Linkages Network, will be held on Thursday (March 16) at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James, beginning at 9:00 a.m. The event will feature a series of 15-minute pre-scheduled meetings among managing directors, general managers and chief executive officers of local supplier companies of products/services and owners/managers of properties, restaurants,...

The growth of tourism over the years has meant that more highly qualified professionals are being drawn to the sector, says Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. “They see the job opportunities and understand that many of these careers command high salaries,” the Minister told JIS News in an interview. Mr. Bartlett argued that the notion that tourism is an...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has hailed the late veteran hotelier and tourism stalwart, Louis Grant, as a true ambassador and patriot of the highest order. Mr. Bartlett told JIS News that Mr. Grant, who died on March 6, was a trailblazer and a man who embodied everything that is good about the tourism industry. “I have known Louis...

Coffee farmers in Portland, St. Andrew and St. Thomas are being invited to attend a ‘Farmers’ Trade Day’, slated for Tuesday, March 14, at the Alfred Sangster Auditorium, University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica, beginning at 9:00 a.m. The event is being organised by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) and the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), with support from...