Jamaica Hotel Development Projects “Still on Track”
A projected increase in Jamaica’s hotel stock to more than 25,000 rooms by 2023 is “still on track,” according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett.
About 90 percent of planned investments for the tourism industry in Jamaica remain on stream, he said.
The country’s hotel pipeline includes a planned 1,700-room hotel property in St James, along with 2,000 more rooms planned for the town of Green Island in Hanover.
“The faith and confidence in destination Jamaica is still there by the investors of tourism in the world, even though we are all challenged by COVID-19 at this time,” Bartlett said.
Jamaica reopened its borders for international tourism in mid-June.
The centerpiece of the country’s planned hotel growth is an estimated $1 billion hotel project by Karisma Hotels and Resorts called Sugarcane Bay.
That project had just broken ground before the pandemic.
— CJI
