• Home
  • Post a press-release
  • Visibility packages
  • Subscribe email updates
  • Event Calendar
  • Contact

For Immediate Release | Official News Wire for the Travel Industry

Where press releases are breaking news

  • Home
  • Post a press-release
  • Visibility packages
  • Subscribe email updates
  • Event Calendar
  • Contact

Bartlett hosts successful community meeting with Jamaican Diaspora in the UK

April 4, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett says his recent meeting with key members of the Jamaican Diaspora in London was very successful.

Speaking at a community meeting, held at the Jamaican High Commission in London, United Kingdom, yesterday, Minister Bartlett spoke of the importance and impact of the UK and global diaspora on the economy of Jamaica. He also commented that nobody can promote and advocate for Jamaica better than Jamaicans living around the world.

With visitor figures for January – March 2019 already outperforming the previous period in 2018 by 13 per cent, Minister Bartlett updated the diaspora community on the island’s key tourism developments for the year ahead including 10,000 additional rooms by the end of 2020.

He also highlighted the new graduate school for hospitality management and tourism and the wider upskilling programs and qualification opportunities for Jamaicans on the island, to continue to grow the direct economic benefits for the workers of the tourism industry first hand.

“Making up 10 per cent of all arrivals into Jamaica each year, and with one in five workers in the Caribbean employed by tourism, it’s important that we do not underestimate its penetration because if we do, we will lose sight of the fact that almost everyone in Jamaica has their being and sustenance connected to tourism.

Working closely with our diaspora communities around the world is vital to promoting our unique tourism message and we value them as advocates and ambassadors hugely,” said Minister Bartlett.

Minister Bartlett also talked in detail about the importance of the recently launched Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre in Jamaica. A first of its kind, the Centre offers a global tourism resource dedicated to research and analysis on destination preparedness, management and recovery from disruptions or crises around the world which is being pioneered at the University of the West Indies.

Minister Bartlett, who represented Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness at the Caribbean Council’s House of Lords Annual reception in London, returned to the island today.

Travel News | eTurboNews

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Press Release Tagged With: and, annual, around the world, arrivals, Bartlett, benefits, better, Breaking Travel News, Caribbean, Centre, commission, communities, community, continue, council, crises, Crisis, Crisis Management Centre, Destination, developments, Diaspora, diaspora community, direct, disruptions, economic, Economy, Edmund Bartlett, end, figures, first, Global, global tourism, Global Tourism Resilience, graduate, grow, hand, held, high, Hon, hospitality, hospitality management, hosts, house, house of lords, impact, importance, important, in, including, Industry, island, IT, Jamaica, Jamaica tourism, Jamaica Tourism Minister, Jamaica travel news, Jamaican, Jamaican High Commission, Jamaicans, January, key, Kingdom, launched, Living, London, lose, management, march, meeting, members, minister, minister Bartlett, most, New, News articles, offers, one in five, period, preparedness, Prime Minister, programs, promote, promoting, recent, reception, recovery, represented, research, resilience, resource, rooms, s, said, said Minister Bartlett, says, school, sight, successful, the Caribbean, The Island, The World, to, today, tourism, Tourism Industry, tourism minister, tourism resilience, Travel & Tourism Organizations News, Travel Destination News, Travelwire News, UK, unique, United, United Bartlett, United Kingdom, university, up, value, visitor, Vital, We, West, west indies, WHO, workers, working, World, year, yesterday

Search



Recent Articles

  • Marriott International Signs Agreement with PGA Hotel Management Group to Debut First Westin Hotels & Resorts All-Inclusive Property in South America
  • Stop Asian Hate
  • Emirates Group signs MoU with Roads and Transport Authority (RTA)
  • Status of interprovincial travel as of 1 March 2021
  • Samui-Phangan-Tao offers discounts to tourists until 30 April 2021
  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) situation in Thailand as of 2 March 2021, 11.30 Hrs.
  • Women Shine in 20 Cinematic Hits Featured This Month in Flight
  • Sandals Royal Barbados: Impressive expansion in time for summer
  • Thailand’s Khao Sok National Park is 50th ASEAN Heritage Park
  • More space and privacy for Emirates Economy Class customers with new option to purchase empty adjoining seats

Copyright © 2021 · Metro Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in