Hospitality Jamaica

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 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...

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...

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...

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’...

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...

The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism...

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...

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 $...

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 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-...

The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) partnered with the Tourism Enhancement Fund to offer ‘Taste Jamaica’, an unforgettable showcase of Jamaican gastronomy...