Tagged: Jamaica

The resort town of Port Antonio buzzed with excitement on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day, after receiving back-to-back cruise vessels, providing well-needed income for craft vendors and other industry players. (more…)

The Port Authority of Jamaica, PAJ, is looking to test the stability of the soil at East Harbour, the site of the planned development of a cruise terminal in the coastal town of Port Antonio, Portland. (more…)

At a destination press briefing held at the 41st Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) Caribbean Travel Marketplace in Barbados, Jamaica‟s Minister of Tourism the Hon. Edmund Bartlett announced that Jamaica has surpassed one million visitor arrivals year-to-date for 2023, reaching this milestone approximately one month earlier than in 2022. (more…)

Royal Caribbean International will resume cruise calls in Jamaica beginning in November after a pandemic-driven absence of more than one and a half years, said Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s minister of tourism. (tylerpaper.com)

With no indication as to when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will give the green light for cruise activity to return to US waters and an expectation that COVID-19 protocols will reduce the number of guests on each voyage, Jamaican cruise line workers whose tour of duty ended prematurely at the start of the outbreak are worried that their jobs could be under threat. (stabroeknews.com)

Jamaica will welcome its first cruise passengers to Port Royal, a sunken city across the bay from Kingston, in January. Marella Discovery 2 will be the first ship to call in at the heritage city made famous in the first instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. (cruisecritic.co.uk)

Preliminary data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica shows that cruise tourism has seen an almost 300% increase in earnings over the last ten years. In 2008, the sector earned J$7.5billion and in 2017 cruise saw earnings of J$22.6billion. (traveldailynews.com)

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says with Ocho Rios welcoming eight ships in four days, the resort town is poised for a spectacular 2018 in cruise tourism. (jis.gov.jm)

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett says that a key outcome of his recent discussions with cruise officials in Miami, Florida is that they are keen on deepening their relationships with the island for 2018. (jamaicaobserver.com)

Michael Belnavis, the chairman of Jamaica National Cruise Council, says the expected boon from the increase in the number of ships calling at Falmouth Pier due to hurricane destruction to other piers in the Caribbean and Key West in Florida, has fallen short of original expectations. (jamaica-gleaner.com)

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the Port of Falmouth in Trelawny is poised to become a model, regional cruise shipping destination, noting that this augurs well for Jamaica’s industry to exponentially record additional growth. (thestkittsnevisobserver.com)

Tourism officials are downplaying the fallout from the pullout of three major cruise lines from the Falmouth pier in Trelawny. The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), which is responsible for the management of the island’s ports, says several major cruise lines are still committed to Falmouth, despite a decision by the three cruise ships to pull out from the port recently. (jamaica-gleaner.com)

Jamaica will host the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) conference this November at its Montego Bay Convention Center. It is the first such event held in the Americas. Jamaica has also recently announced major cruise initiatives. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism the Hon. Edmund Bartlett and Director of Tourism Paul Pennicook announced at Seatrade Cruise Global a new ambitious Cruise Jamaica initiative. (cruisebusiness.com)

Four ports across Jamaica hosted a record nine cruise ships last Wednesday, as three ships called in Ocho Rios, three in Montego Bay, two in Falmouth and one in Port Antonio. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, says Jamaica’s hosting of the six largest ships in the world is proof that the island is poised to become the region’s number one cruise destination. (jamaicaobserver.com)

The cruise destination of Port Antonio, Jamaica is working hard to clean up a flood of garbage, which has led to a serious rat problem and the cancelation of six cruise ship calls. (maritime-executive.com)

Commercial Services has name Caribic Vacations of Montego Bay as the exclusive provider of the Jamaica Land of Film bus tour. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Jamaica recently welcomed six of the world’s largest cruise vessels and mega-liners in the ports of Falmouth, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Kingston. (travelagentcentral.com)

The ports of Falmouth, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Kingston will host a combined six cruise vessels today (December 06), giving the island’s cruise-shipping industry another significant boost. (jamaicaobserver.com)

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has embraced a suggestion from Captain Johnny Faevelen, master of the world’s largest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, to strategically engage crew members on cruise ships to aid in promoting the destination to attract more passengers to the island. (jamaica-gleaner.com)

Chairman of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), Professor Gordon Shirley, says the agency is fast-tracking plans to upgrade the island’s major cruise shipping towns, to enable the country to attract more cruise vessels. (jamaicaobserver.com)

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, has reactivated the National Cruise Council with a mandate to help boost cruise visitor arrivals to Jamaica. (jamaica-gleaner.com)

Two more cruise ships are expected to begin home-porting in Montego Bay, St. James, in the next winter season, bringing to seven the number of vessels in that arrangement. (caribbean360.com)

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett is projecting that cruise arrivals to Falmouth’s port should reach 1.5 million by 2021. This, Bartlett sad, is in light of current plans to transform Falmouth into a premiere regional destination. (jamaicaobserver.com)

Jamaican news reports indicate government officials are planning an expansion of the highly successful cruise ship port in the historic town of Falmouth. (travelpulse.com)

The first phase of the Festival Marketplace project to transform the Kingston waterfront into a cultural experience was the easy part – developing walkways for easy access to eateries and other establishments to evolve along Ocean Boulevard. (jamaica-gleaner.com)