Over 40 tourism stakeholders recognised as TPDCo celebrates 30th anniversary

MANCHESTER, Jamaica – Scores of tourism stakeholders were on Thursday recognised for their contribution to the local industry during the Tourism Product Development Company Limited’s (TPDCo) 30th Anniversary Stakeholder Awards Ceremony at The Garden Hotel in Mandeville.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith in reading a speech from Minister Edmund Bartlett said the strength of Jamaica’s tourism industry extends far beyond hotels, attractions and physical infrastructure.

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“The real infrastructure of tourism is not concrete, it is cooperation. The strongest asset in Jamaican tourism is not a building. It is trust. The greatest resource we possess is not our beaches, it is our people. And the most important investment we can make is in relationships,” the speech read in part.