tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has declared that the long-held perception that tourism is for the “big man” is not true, as the industry can take an individual from nothing and “make you into something”.
Bartlett made the bold statement at Wednesday’s post-Cabinet press briefing, during which he disclosed that some 40 per cent of the US$4.38 billion that was earned from the tourism industry for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, was retained in the Jamaican economy.
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Minister of tourism Edmund Bartlett
“The image that tourism has borne over the years is for the big man, we want to totally erase that image because it is not true,” he insisted.
“There is no industry on planet Earth that does more and offers more opportunity for the smallest of persons with the least idea; not a genius, not a rocket scientist, but starting from a little guy with an idea, a foolish little idea to make crabs race, and in no time they’re driving a car and sending their children to school and building a house. I’ve…
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