It is almost six months now since the return of international arrivals to Jamaica and Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) president Clifton Reader is proud of the exceptional level of compliance with the COVID health...
When I was told of a 78-year-old woman who cultivates ground provisions and still cleans her floor with a coconut brush, I immediately decided to go see her in Chantilly, Manchester. Even her ‘pet name’, Miss Kitsy, was an allure. With the corona...
The $700-million Artisan Village at Hampden Wharf in Falmouth has been delayed as a result of COVID-19. The facility was scheduled for completion in March; however, with the virus causing chaos worldwide, the new attraction has been stopped...
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released its updated assessment of the likely impact of the COVID-19 on international tourism. Taking into account the unparalleled introduction of travel restrictions across the world, the United Nations...
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of recommendations calling for urgent and strong support to help the global tourism sector to not only recover from the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19 but to ‘grow back better’. The...
Considered the top boutique hotel in St Mary, the 14-room Galina Breeze Hotel in Galina is described in some quarters as a “hotel sitting on the edge of the Caribbean Sea”. Galina Breeze offers facilities for parties, weddings, and conferences. All...
The Courtleigh Hotel and Suites has once again been designated as a ‘Best of Housekeeping’ property by the American Automobile Association (AAA). The 2020 honour recognises the property’s housekeeping operation for significantly surpassing...
Some hospitality workers in tourism-dependent Hanover are contemplating moving into agriculture, in light of the fallout in tourist arrivals triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought the industry to a standstill. Among these workers are...
A handful of tourists stranded in Negril, after mass flight cancellations and closure of the island’s borders because of the COVID-19 pandemic, say they prefer whiling the time away in the Capital of Casual, instead of risking infection en route...
The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is using its digital platform to deliver a virtual care package to uplift and inspire followers around the world who are currently practising responsible social distancing. The JTB kicked off its ‘Escape to Jamaica’...
Over the last decades, parishioners and visitors to the parish of St Mary have been gawking at the very interesting tombs in the Annotto Bay Cemetery in the said parish. While some have been criticised for being over the top, others are regarded...
The challenge that will soon face almost every Caribbean country will be the recovery of tourism, without which future economic growth will be all but impossible. The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered the industry globally, made hundreds of...
Airlines are united in the global effort to stop a virus that is overwhelming the world’s healthcare systems (COVID-19) and threatening many lives. However, this is having a major impact on them and the value chain, says Alexandre de Juniac,...
Mastercard has announced it is championing a move to increase the contactless payment limits across Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region as people look for safer ways to pay in the wake of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The initiative is...
We need no further reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic has become a global shock of epic proportions. Accordingly, I will depart from the morbid and depressing narrative that you have grown accustomed to over the last several weeks which could have...
A significant number of Trelawny-based transport operators in the tourism industry who borrowed to purchase buses in 2019 say even before the coronavirus crisis they were having difficulties paying their loans. A group of drivers, which received $...
Couples Resorts has pushed back renovation plans for its Sans Souci hotel in St Mary because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In statement online last Friday over the signature of Chairman Lee Issa, the company said: “In light of COVID-19, we have decided...
Jamaica’s tourism sector has lost one of its outstanding servants with the recent passing of Herbert ‘Teddy’ Tucker, who served the industry for over 60 years. Tucker, whose last position was bartender at the renowned Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios, died...
The Issa Trust Foundation, the non-profit organisation of Couples Resorts Jamaica, has reacted with urgency to the medical needs of the Jamaican Government due to the COVID-19 pandemic by sourcing US$238,000 (J$32 million) in equipment and...
The Coronavirus has been emptying hotel rooms, for many reasons. And has been written elsewhere in this edition of Hospitality Jamaica, Kanopi House, located in the San San region of Portland on the Cognosanti coast near Zion Hill in the ultra-...
It is not news that many of Jamaica’s biggest hotels have significantly scaled down their operations as a result of the worldwide COVID-19 (coronavirus) scare, which slowly, but surely brought tourism in Jamaica, and the world, by extension, to a...
The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) partnered with the Tourism Enhancement Fund to offer ‘Taste Jamaica’, an unforgettable showcase of Jamaican gastronomy...
When she hits the 100-year-old milestone this Friday, Negril’s iconic hotelier Joyce McNeill Wright, will simultaneously celebrate 35 years of the establishment of the award-winning Rondel Village hotel, which she co-founded. Born on April 3,...
