Tourism Recovering Faster Than Anticipated  

 

• Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the sector is recovering at a faster than anticipated pace. The Minister was addressing a town hall meeting hosted by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), at the Alterry Beach Club, at Priory Beach in St. Ann, on August 28.
• Thus far, in a recent mid-year review in Ocho Rios it was disclosed that to date, the country has had 1.7Mn visitors that spent just a little under US$3Bn. Based on the outturns for the year-to-date period, the sector is now trending 90% against 2019.
• “When you look at what we are doing you will see that in 2019, we earned US$3.6Bn for the entire year, and we have gone only eight months in this year and we are now at the edge of US$3Bn,” he pointed out.
• The Minister noted that 2022 predictions indicate that visitors will spend over US$4Bn and that would easily be a 15 to 20% increase from 2019.

(Source: JIS News)