WASHINGTON, DC – Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has lauded U.S. journey advisors for the essential position they play in selling and promoting Jamaica as a vacationer vacation spot.
Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmond Bartlett addresses prime journey brokers from Baltimore and Philadelphia at McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant downtown Baltimore. The luncheon was hosted by the Jamaica Vacationer Board on Friday, April 12. | (Derrick Scott Photograph )
Minister Bartlett advised the over twenty journey brokers from Baltimore and Philadelphia, “you could be assured that promoting Jamaica to potential guests to our shores is a secure, safe, and seamless expertise.
“Jamaica appreciates all that you just do to e-book your shoppers to the vacation spot. We’re grateful to every considered one of our valued journey skilled companions for the enterprise you proceed to ship our method.”
The Tourism Minister made his feedback as he addressed a luncheon hosted by the Jamaica Vacationer Board in honor of prime travel agents from Baltimore and Philadelphia at McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant downtown Baltimore on Friday, April 12.
Minister Bartlett identified that almost all of the bookings into Jamaica had been made by journey brokers and tour operators and famous that roughly 70 p.c of all guests to Jamaica had been from the US, our largest supply market.
Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmund Bartlett middle poses for {a photograph} with prime journey brokers from Baltimore and Philadelphia. | (Derrick Scott Photograph)
Bartlett advised the journey brokers that “every considered one of you has helped our tourism sector to thrive and develop and for that I can’t thanks sufficient.”
He mentioned that Jamaica’s vacationer business has continued to develop and is now seeing customer arrivals and earnings exceeding 2019 pre-pandemic ranges. “For 2023, our information signifies that we welcomed roughly 4 million visitors to our shores with gross overseas alternate earnings of roughly USD $4.2 billion, which is sort of 18 p.c above earnings posted in 2019,” Bartlett suggested.
Stopover Arrivals
The Minister identified that stopover arrivals accounted for about 70 p.c of whole customer arrivals and that we acquired an estimated 2.98 million, which represents a rise of 16.7 p.c over 2022 and a rise of seven.9 p.c over 2019.
He mentioned that over 2.1 million of these arrivals had been from the U.S. market which represents about 74 p.c of whole stopover arrivals for the yr. This marks a rise of 15.2 p.c over 2022 and a rise of 16.1 p.c over 2019.
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett presents a present basket of Jamaican goodies to Ms. Claire Robinson (R) of Skies Journey Company at a luncheon for prime journey advisors from Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sharing within the highlight is the Jamaica Vacationer Board’s District Gross sales Supervisor for the Northeast USA Victoria Harper (L). | (Derrick Scott Photograph)
Mr. Bartlett mentioned he was happy that Jamaica had damaged one other barrier by welcoming a million guests and incomes one billion {dollars} in gross overseas alternate earnings through the first two months of this yr alone.
“We now have skilled a outstanding peak winter season to this point, once we obtain probably the most stopover arrivals of the yr, as folks from our key supply markets, particularly the US and Canada come to flee the chilly for a heat climate vacation, Bartlett concluded.
