Jamaica ready to assist countries hit by hurricane to rebuild their tourism sector

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Hon.

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett has expressed his deepest sympathy to the people of Haiti, Cuba and The Bahamas, including his colleague Ministers of Tourism, who have been impacted by the passage of Hurricane Matthew. Minister Bartlett has also outlined that Jamaica stands ready to assist in rebuilding the tourism industry in the affected countries.


โ€œWe are all a part of the regional tourism family, so it is important that we are willing to help each other in times of need. Jamaica is eager to assist in rebuilding the sectors in these countries, even as we seek to collaborate with them in building regional tourism through initiatives, such as a multi-destination tourism framework,โ€ said Minister Bartlett.

The Minister is currently on official business in Armenia where in his capacity as Chairman of the United Nations World Tourism Organizationโ€™s (UNWTO) Board of Affiliate Members, he chaired the 38th Plenary Session of the UNWTO Affiliate Members. Even while overseas, Minister Bartlett has been making every effort to reach out to his colleague ministers in the affected countries.

โ€œIt is important for me to reach out to each minister across the region whose nation has been impacted, because I wanted them to know that I am available to assist in any way possible to rebuild the tourism sector,โ€ shared Minister Bartlett.

Minister Bartlettโ€™s comments come as normalcy has returned to Jamaicaโ€™s tourism sector with the nation being spared the brunt of Matthew, which never made landfall, but passed offshore the island.

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