![]() ![]() In total, we had somewhere in the order of 850,000 arrivals for the year, compared to 2.5 million the year before in 2019, so it's a huge fall-off. In terms of our overall 2020 performance, as a destination, our numbers are down some 68% in 2020 versus 2019. What have the arrivals and tourism revenue figures looked like since last June’s restart? It also provides us even more security that the persons traveling to Jamaica are of a lower risk factor of being carriers of the virus. ![]() to have a negative COVID-19 test no more than 72 hours (before traveling), we felt that if we're going to implement it on the re-entry, it also makes sense to do it on the entry. In January, when the CDC required all persons traveling into the U.S. It’s now in line with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requirements. That testing window shrunk some recently, right? It was 10 days. That COVID-19 test can now be either PCR or antigen. They also need to know that they have to get a COVID-19 test done no more than 72 hours before traveling to Jamaica. You need to understand our entry process, which has been augmented with the Travel Authorization process, which is very simple. Then, the next most important thing you need to do is get onto the Visit Jamaica website. Pretty much all the major destination partners in Jamaica are available for business. Our focus … was to provide an area of the country that allowed for full movement of visitors to the country without having any risks being transferred onto the citizens of the country. From that perspective, our focus, when it was conceived, was to provide an area of the country that allowed for full movement of visitors to the country without having any risks being transferred onto the citizens of the country. ![]() They couldn't come in and get a car and just drive all over the country, because that would defeat the purpose of what the Resilient Corridor is designed to do. What the Resilient Corridor also requires is that visitors to Jamaica can only traverse the Resilient Corridors in a Tourist Board-licensed transportation. This allowed us to cover, as I said, more than 80% of our tourism assets, which meant there is very little a visitor coming to Jamaica would want to experience that they wouldn't be able to do. The two corridors stretch between Negril in the west to Port Antonio in the east, and then from Negril again in the west to Milk River in the central parts of Jamaica and the south. It was decided on as a way to reopen safely, allowing visitors to enjoy the characteristics of the destination while they're vacationing, but at the same time, doing so safely for Jamaicans who live in Jamaica. ![]() Credit: 2021 Jamaica Tourist BoardĬan you explain those Resilient Corridors further? Why have travelers been limited to those areas? That was one of our big initiatives in reopening, which has worked tremendously well in terms of keeping us safe, keeping our visitors safe, but more importantly, still allowing for seamless movement of visitors across the destination.ĭonovan White, Jamaica’s director of tourism (right) and Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism for Jamaica (left), speak with reporters on June 15, 2020, at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. In effect, we've enabled the tourism space with very little transmission of the virus to the Jamaican population from tourists. The creation of the Resilient Corridors was a significant achievement for us because what it enabled us to do is to geographically bookend 80% of our tourism assets in an area that also occupies less than 20% of our domestic population. We have done some very interesting things to enable reopening and staying reopened, because many destinations have opened, but have actually had to re-close and open again. It’s been 10 months since Jamaica reopened to international visitors. RELATED: Should Advisors Book Travel to Jamaica Right Now? ![]()
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