Tourism recovery

ROSE HALL, St James — Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has projected that the sector is on a firm path to achieving an 88 per cent recovery by Decemberfollowing the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa last October.

“We will start our winter tourism season with just about 3,000 rooms missing, which is a tremendous performance — if I’m allowed to say so — [despite] the real difficulties that we have had…

in terms of insurance payments, [and] supply chain situations,” Bartlett told journalists on the sidelines of the Jamaica Labour Party Area Council 4 meeting at Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James on Sunday. According to Bartlett, full recovery of the tourism sector is expected by May 2027.