Jamaica reportedly earned some USD $300 million from vacationer arrivals through the month of December.
In line with stories, the island noticed an estimated 250,000 guests, the vast majority of whom had been members of the Jamaican diaspora.
Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett had beforehand predicted that the 2023/24 winter vacationer season could be the most important within the nation’s historical past, with over a million stopover guests anticipated. A document 1.05 million airline seats had been secured from practically six thousand flights coming into Jamaica out of the USA.
The tourism winter season runs from mid-December till mid-April.
“This achievement underscores the unwavering confidence and assist of vacationers worldwide, as they proceed to decide on Jamaica as their most popular vacation vacation spot,” the Minister acknowledged.
“Keep in mind the cruise numbers aren’t included right here. Now we have already secured 1.5 million seats throughout the markets of the world and assuming a really low 75 % load issue from the airways coming in, we shall be multiple million stopover arrivals for the season,” he added.
Bartlett additionally expressed gratitude to vacationers for his or her belief within the vacation spot.
He additionally disclosed that for the interval, of January to November 29, 2023, preliminary figures point out that “some 2.5 million stopover guests have graced our shores, accounting for an 18 % improve over the identical interval in 2022 and a ten % improve over the identical interval in pre-pandemic 2019.
“If we proceed on this spectacular development trajectory, we shall be on observe to fulfill our new projections of 4 million guests and international change earnings of US$4.1 billion by year-end,” asserted Minister Bartlett.
