Issues - Tourism
Massive pay back
Jamaica earns US$150-m from airlift pact with AA
BY VERNON DAVIDSON Executive Editor -- Publications davidsonv@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, March 01, 2010
THE revenue guarantee airlift agreement that Jamaica signed with American Airlines in 2008 has earned the country just over US$150 million and further opened up the destination to increased visitor traffic at a time when other countries in the Caribbean were recording declines, tourism officials confirmed at the weekend.
Tourism Strategy for Haiti
KINGSTON (JIS):
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has said that a strategy is being developed for the economic recovery of earthquake-hit Haiti, which will use elements of Jamaica's Tourism Master Plan.
This strategy, called the Montego Bay Initiative, will position tourism as a main pillar for the economic development of Haiti.
US-based Air Tran begins nonstop services to MoBay
JIS/Jamaica Observer
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
AIR Tran Airways last Thursday began non-stop services from three locations in the United States to Montego Bay, St James.
The three inaugural flights from the Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the Orlando International Airport and the Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport, touched down at the Sangster International Airport with a total of 259 passengers.
Another Airlift Boost for Tourism
KINGSTON (JIS):
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Courtesy of Jamaica Information Service
Jamaica's tourism received another major boost Thursday (February 11), when Air Tran Airways launched nonstop services from three locations in the United States to Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay.
$250m for Physical Upgrading of Bath and Milk River Spas
KINGSTON (JIS):
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Courtesy of Jamaica Information Service
Minister of Tourism, the Hon Edmund Bartlett, has said that the Government will be spending some $250 million this year on two major spas, Bath, St. Thomas and Milk River, Clarendon, towards the development of Health and Wellness Tourism.
Mr. Bartlett said that this was in keeping with the efforts to expand the 'mental imprint' of Destination Jamaica, worldwide.
Tuff Gong is 'a jewel in Jamaica's tourism treasures' — Bartlett
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Jamaica Observer
AT the recent grand opening of the Berhane Selassie Art Gallery at Tuff Gong International, Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, expressed his deep respect for the record company founded by Robert Nesta Marley.
Before cutting of the ribbon with Marley's daughter, Stephanie, Minister Bartlett, in his speech said he regarded Tuff Gong as "a jewel in the gilded trunk of Jamaica's tourism treasures".
Winter tourist arrivals up 9%
NGRID BROWN Senior Observer reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
TOURIST arrivals to Jamaica during the winter season are up nine per cent so far, according to tourism officials.
Since the winter season began on December 15, 220,000 stopover tourists have visited Jamaica, with 116,000 visitors arriving within the first three weeks of January alone, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett told the Business Observer on Monday. This, he said, represents close to nine per cent over the similar period last year.
Housing soon for tourism workers
Published: Monday | January 25, 2010
Jamaica Gleaner WESTERN BUREAU:
Talks are reportedly at an advanced stage between the Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation Inc and the Jamaican Government for the acquisition of lands near Grange Pen in Lilliput, St James, to construct houses for tourism workers.
"Grange Pen is one of the informal developments within this area that has been under the Operation PRIDE programme for quite a while, and the community itself has been struggling to get itself together," Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett explained yesterday.
TOURISM INDUSTRY PROJECTED TO GROW SIX PERCENT IN 2010 - GNN
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett Shares 2010 Forecast
At Caribbean Marketplace Travel Trade Event
Kingston, Jamaica January 13, 2010 – Tourism Minister, Hon Edmund Bartlett is projecting a six percent growth in tourism this year, almost twice the growth recorded in 2009.
Winter season off with a bang, says gleeful Bartlett
Monday, January 04, 2010
Jamaica Observer
CLOSE to 100,000 visitors, escaping the icy chill of the North, have arrived here since the start of the winter tourist season, which began on December 15 and ends in April 2010.
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett gleefully declared it yesterday as the "best ever" winter season in recent years.
