Tourism Stakeholders Pleased With Stimulus Package

• Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says tourism stakeholders have responded positively to the Government’s stimulus package for the sector, to cushion the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
• “The workers of the industry are very heartened by the action of the Government. In fact, they have been indicating their delight that something is being done. We are in the process of working out the details of it, but the feeling is one of hope, and the feeling is one of appreciation of the steps the Government is taking,” he told JIS News.
• I “Hopefully, at the end of the day, we can come out with a better product and with a better understanding of the new realities. Then Jamaica would be in a position to take off ahead of anybody else, and that’s the objective,” the Minister said.

(Source: JIS)