Jamaica off to a superb winter season

Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has described it as “the strongest within the historical past of Jamaica” because the island welcomed greater than 40,000 guests thus far for the winter season that started December 15.

“We have been in a position to welcome over the weekend, from December 15 to 18, a complete of 42,000 guests. That features 37,000 stopover and 5,000 cruise guests… one thing no one would have predicted this early in our restoration (from the COVID-19 pandemic),” he advised the Jamaica Data Service (JIS) Information.

Bartlett stated greater than 11,000 stopover guests arrived on roughly 61 flights touchdown at Sangster Worldwide Airport in Montego Bay on December 17, making it the most important quantity recorded in a single day.

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He additionally stated the arrivals quantity is “not solely a file for the sector, however additional underscores the sturdy post-pandemic restoration that the tourism business continues to take pleasure in”.

Bartlett stated the out-turn for the cruise transport sector has additionally been spectacular, noting that over 80 % of the passengers arriving on the Carnival Dawn, which docked in St. Ann on December 15, disembarked.

‘The ship had some 3,000 passengers and 1,200 crew, they usually have been throughout Ocho Rios and have been busy spending and having fun with our tourism choices. The identical factor has occurred [elsewhere] as passengers disembarked ships which have docked in Falmouth, together with Royal Caribbean Cruise vessels,” Bartlett stated, including all the opposite main cruise traces proceed to seek out favor with Jamaica and he anticipates that the 2022/23 season “shall be nice”.

Bartlett stated the “superb” arrival figures have been “proof of the laborious work that the ministry, its public our bodies, and tourism companions have put into advertising and marketing Vacation spot Jamaica” and that the season is “shaping as much as be the most effective winter Jamaica has ever had.

“We’re glad that the tourism sector has successfully recovered. We’re equally glad that the market is responding strongly to Jamaica. The ahead bookings for the remainder of the season are equally sturdy. We all know that the market understands Jamaica and we all know that the market appreciates the standard of the product and the excellence of the expertise that we provide,” he added.

In October, Edmund Bartlett had introduced that Jamaica had taken in US$5.7 billion in income since its borders reopened in June 2020.

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