Preliminary gross earnings from tourism are estimated at a record US$4.38 billion for fiscal year 2023/24 as the sector continues its exponential growth.
Stopover arrivals are projected at 2.96 million, reflecting a 9.4 per cent increase over the previous period, with cruise arrivals expected to reach 1.34 million, up by nine per cent from the previous period in 2022/23.
Minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett, in announcing the figures as he opened the 2024/25 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, said that the US$4.38 billion in earnings “is the largest revenue flow from tourism in the history of the tourism industry”.
“Several of our communities that were reeling from COVID, as a result of this performance, are now bustling centres of commerce and activity again and are providing more jobs,” he noted.
Bartlett informed that for the first three months of 2024, Jamaica has already cleared 1.34 million visitors with earnings of…
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