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The Jamaica Tourist Board has released statistics that show that 2.084 million visitors came to the island during the first half of 2016 giving Jamaica earnings of $1.3 billion. There were a total of 2,084,963 arrivals during the first half of the current year, registering a growth of 7.5%. In fact, Jamaica recorded the highest number of visitors for any July in the island’s history this year.
“The preliminary numbers for July exclude Jamaican Nationals and members of the Diaspora. This is a four percent increase over last year and when the Diaspora is added it will perhaps equal June’s six percent,” said Bartlett.
The U.S. and UK continue to remain Jamaica’s strongest markets with 147,053 and 15,782 arrivals respectively in June 2016.
“Tourism is the fastest growing economic activity in the world. Last year tourism earned $1.3 trillion and 1.2 billion people travelled across the globe. Here in the Caribbean 28 million people visited and we earned $30 billion. At home in Jamaica, 3.7 million people visited and we earned $2.5 billion,” said the Minister.
Source: travelnewsdigest.in