Montego Bay, Jamaica tops Summer season Vacation spot Cities

[KINGSTON, Jamaica] – Jamaica’s second metropolis has been ranked the highest summer time journey restoration metropolis of 2022.

The revelation follows a summer time journey Outlook Report that was produced for the World Journey Market (WTM) by ForwardKeys (supplier of journey tendencies and evaluation).

The summer time journey outlook 2022 report revealed that “on the metropolis stage, summer time journey restoration is being led by Caribbean locations specifically Montego Bay, Jamaica” with a optimistic development of 23 %.

The report additionally shared that Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and Cancun, Mexico, positioned second and third, with 19 % and 14 % enhance, respectively.

Twenty cities had been listed within the report, with Cairo, Egypt, and Dehli in India rounding out the highest 5, cities.

Based mostly on the reported knowledge, which confirmed a comparability between worldwide vacationer arrivals for Q3 2022 and Q3 2019, Montego Bay is among the many most resilient vacation spot cities.

Montego Bay, the capital of St. James on island’s north coast, is a significant cruise ship port with quite a few seaside resorts.

In the meantime Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett who lately shared that part of the sector’s restoration technique was assembly with long-standing tourism companions to get a really feel of market sentiment and projections, is happy with the information, has expressed delight with the information.

Mr. Bartlett mentioned that is proof that “Jamaica is bouncing ahead from the devastating affect to the sector by the COVID-19 pandemic”, including that we’re really resilient”.

The Tourism Minister famous additionally that the business is “now greater than earlier than, poised for a full restoration”.

The nation has seen file figures for arrivals and earnings over the past 12 months.