WESTERN BUREAU:
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is expressing much confidence that the tourism industry will bounce back by 2023, but he is arguing that much will be dependent on the nation’s capacity to manage the new COVID-19 pandemic requirements for visitors from major markets like the US.
“We were positive we would see our best months yet, (but) unfortunately, COVID-19 cases worldwide are again spiralling and new variants of the virus is cause for much consternation,” Bartlett said, while addressing a virtual meeting of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay on Wednesday. “It is so much so that many countries are tightening travel restrictions.”
“I cannot say what the final outcome of winter may be,” said…