Montego Bay, Jamaica Tops Summer Destination Cities

• Jamaica’s second city has been ranked the top summer travel recovery city of 2022 based on the Summer Travel Outlook Report that was produced for the World Travel Market (WTM) by ForwardKeys (provider of travel trends and analysis).
• The report showed a comparison between international tourist arrivals for Q3 2022 and Q3 2019, noting Montego Bay to be among the most resilient destination cities with a positive growth of 23%.
• The report also shared that Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and Cancun, Mexico, placed second and third, with 19% and 14% increases, respectively. Twenty cities were listed in the report, with Cairo, Egypt, and Dehli in India rounding out the top 5, cities.
• Meanwhile, Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett who recently shared that a part of the sector’s recovery strategy was meeting with long-standing tourism partners to get a feel of market sentiment and projections, has expressed delight with the news.
• The country has seen vastly improving figures for arrivals and earnings over the last year; the country welcomed more than 1.5Mn visitors in 2021 and raked in over US2.095Bn in earnings. The Tourism Minister noted also that the industry is “now more than before, poised for a full recovery”.  The news is expected to support tourists’ arrival to the city and Jamaica at large which will be an added boost for local shops and businesses.

(Source: JIS News)