Lovers Leap

The Christmas in July trade show is celebrating 5 years. And with that comes new and exciting features for the 2019 staging of the event. We’re talking pop up fashion shows, live artistic drawings as well as one hundred and twenty local manufacturers showcasing their products. Stick around as we go deeper on this week’s tourism round up.

Several of Jamaica’s ports are being expanded, to accept the largest vessels the industry has to offer. This means more cruise passengers for the major resort towns and increased business in the wider communities. Our first stop is Montego Bay and we’ll tell you all about the planned developments on this week’s tourism round up.

The Minister of Tourism in partnership with the University of the West Indies is set to launch Jamaica’s first graduate tourism and hospitality programme. This is part of efforts to increase the level of training available locally for persons interested in entering the industry and those looking for further training.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s reaction following a tour of the newly opened AC Marriot Hotel in New Kingston. We tell you all about it on this week’s tourism round up.

There’s a new hotel in town, catering specifically to business professionals, and staking a claim for Jamaica as the premier business tourism destination in the region. We tell you all about it on this week’s Tourism Round Up

Tourism dependent countries across the Caribbean are rolling out measures to build resilience to climate change. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett recently visited the United States Virgin Islands to meet with stakeholders to learn about measures that can help the local sector. We tell you all about it on this week’s Tourism Round-Up.