KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Despite a 3.1 per cent decrease in visitor arrivals this past winter, Jamaica is already reporting a rebound of nine per cent in one of its most important source markets - Canada.
This has been bolstered by an unprecedented growth of 10 per cent in the United Kingdom (UK) market over the past two months.
"We have already had growth in stopover arrivals in May (2.3 per cent) and June (3.2 per cent). On a more positive note, figures for May, the first month of the summer, are showing a rebound in the Canadian market (nine per cent), and in May we returned to growth out of the UK for the first time in a long while ( almost 10 per cent)," said Tourism Minister Wykeham McNeill during his sectoral presentation in Parliament on Tuesday.