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    Tourism sees a remarkable upturn in investments and opportunities

    Sep 12, 2017 4 minutes

    Jamaica is the best holiday destination in the Caribbean and the 12th best in the world, according to TripAdvisor. Tourism has long been important to Jamaica’s economy, but it is currently experiencing rapid expansion and 2016 saw more than 3.84 million visitors to the country, bringing in $2.55 billion. In July, Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, revealed that the sector’s earnings for the first six months of 2017 were estimated to be $1.84 billion, over 8% up on the same period in 2016. Visitor numbers also rose – up 3.9% to 2.17 million.

    That growth has been accompanied by an unprecedented increase in investments, says Bartlett, “in the last three years, we have received

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