Hospitality Jamaica

ONE OF the more interesting aspects of a recent Cariforum-EU Business Forum, organised by the Caribbean Export Development Agency in Montego Bay, was a brief discussion on the ways in which some of the region's new high-quality value-added products...

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In keeping with its mandate to advance Jamaica as a viable and desirable tourist destination, the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) has announced a number of promotional initiatives it will undertake locally and internationally as part of its 60th...

THE TOP-selling tour operators for Jamaica will gather in Montego Bay, the island's tourist capital for the Blue Mountain Awards on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Jamaica's prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, will be patron and a special guest at the...

International tourism receipts increased by US$48 billion in 2014 to reach a record US$1.245 billion. An additional US$221 billion was generated from international passenger transport, bringing total exports from international tourism up to US$1.5...

Health-care tourism is listed as an opportunity for the Caribbean region according to an article outlining '13 opportunities for the New Caribbean'.In Caribbean Journal, an online news source, CuraÁao-based development consultants Miguel Goede and...

The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) government has signed a development agreement with the Desarrollos Hotel Group to build a $224 million Ritz-Carlton hotel, resort, casino and spa in the Grace Bay area of Providenciales on April 2. The proposed...

As plans for the transformation of the resort town of Negril take shape, Minister of Tourism and Entertainment Dr Wykeham McNeill has challenged stakeholders to actively participate and support the town's transformation.Outlining an architectural...

V.C. Bird International Airport will serve as an important hub for UK-based carrier British Airways (BA), as the airline on Sunday launched its inaugural flight service from Antigua to the Turks and Caicos Islands.The route is historic as it will be...

To gather information and pictures for a project on St Thomas I journeyed, once again, to Jamaica's most easterly parish, on Thursday, April 2. It was a tour I looked forward to, because some of the places on the itinerary I have never been to. What...

Barbados has won the bid to host the 2017 Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival, an international tournament for semi-professional and retired players.Local cricketing legends Sir Garfield Sobers and Joel Garner have joined a delegation led by Alvin...

The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) was joined by leading travel agents and media in the United Kingdom (UK), as they prepared to get 'Reggae to Party' with reggae star, Protoje on Friday, March 27. Protoje and his band, The Indignation, arrived in the...