Thursday, October 20, 2022
Jamaica is expected to make an anticipated US$5 billion in incomes from tourism next year, based on the current tendency in the industry’s out-turns, said Minister Hon. Edmund Bartlett. He said that the country is also projected to welcome five million visitors in 2024, which is one year before the initial aim.
The Minister addressed the 2nd day of the Jamaica Customer Service Association’s (JCSA) National Customer Service Week (NCSW) and Service Excellence virtual conference, held from 2 to 8 this month.
Mr. Bartlett said that Jamaica is expected to exceed US$4 billion earnings. Jamaica is now surpassing the arrivals compared to 2019. Initially, the country had set the target of witnessing five million visitors, generating US$5 billion over five years.
Minister Bartlett said that the Jamaican tourism industry is reviving well from the two-year collapse in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and it continues to experience development. The economy went up by 5.7 per cent during the period, compared to the corresponding period in 2021, with substantial contributions by the tourism and hospitality sectors.
As per data from the PIOJ, the ‘Hotels and Restaurants’ subsector developed by an expected 55.4 per cent.
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