Jamaica is coming to the tip of what’s prone to be its best summer ever for tourism, and the outlook for the autumn is promising as effectively.
This contains knowledge from the vital U.S. market, the place Jamaica now expects a rise in flight capability of 140,000 further seats between September and December.
This suggests an 18% progress over 2019 earlier than the pandemic started and a 19% improve over the identical interval in 2022.
“This added capability is a testomony to the attraction of the island’s tourism product in addition to the wonderful relationships we get pleasure from with our U.S. airline companions,” mentioned the Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica.
“They clearly believe that we are able to fill these seats as we are actually surpassing 2019 stopover arrivals and on monitor for a full restoration in these annual figures for 2023,” he added
The rise was primarily attributable to further American Airways flights from Dallas and Chicago, expanded United service from Chicago, and elevated Southwest Airways flights from Baltimore and Orlando, amongst others.
“As we return tourism arrivals to progress, new routes, bigger planes and extra accessible seats from our valued airline companions are essential to attaining that objective,” mentioned Donovan White, Director of Tourism, Jamaica Vacationer Board. “We’re very grateful to all carriers which have elevated service to Jamaica and stay up for persevering with to work collectively all through the years.”
This summer time, Jamaica booked 1.4 million seats, a 16 p.c improve over the earlier file set in 2019.
Virtually 75% of all vacationers visiting Jamaica are Individuals.
