The Port Authority of Jamaica has welcomed Jamaica being named the World’s Leading Cruise Destination by the World Travel Awards (WTA) as a major achievement, particularly at a time when the global cruise industry is facing severe challenges due to the coronavirus (COVID-19)) pandemic. The announcement was made during a virtual awards ceremony held on Thursday (November 26). Speaking in...

Visitor Relations Manager at the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Andrea Savizon, says that despite the depressing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourists still have not lost their appetite for travelling. Speaking to JIS News recently at the Sangster International Airport, following the arrival of two JetBlue direct flights from out of Raleigh, North Carolina and Newark, New Jersey, the JTB...

Cabinet has given approval for the divestment of the assets of Silver Sands Estates Limited (SSEL) in Trelawny. “This will be done by the transfer of the real estate assets of SSEL to the Silver Sands Cottage Owners Association (SSCOA),” said Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, during a virtual post-Cabinet press briefing on November 25. “This...

The Government, in partnership with the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), has launched a [coronavirus] COVID-19 Ambassador Programme, geared towards promoting proper hygiene and peer encouragement in the tourism sector, to prevent the spread of the virus. Since the Government reopened the borders for the entry of tourists into the country after the declaration of the pandemic, there have...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has called on tourism leaders across the globe to activate the sector’s natural resilience in order to preserve the industry’s growth and transmission into the next phase of existence. “The world is depending upon this sector to be a shoulder on which the global economy stands in order to see the future ahead and...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says Jamaica is uniquely poised to capitalise on a surge in wellness tourism as persons seek relief from the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “It is safe to anticipate that notwithstanding the toll on the travel industry, a lot of people will be anxious to go to some place where they can revive...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says an early distribution of a potential vaccine could spur a quicker than expected return to normality in the tourism sector. Mr. Bartlett, who was speaking to JIS News at the two-day Health and Wellness conference at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, St. James, which started on November 18, cautioned that while the recent...