Thursday, May 17, 2018
Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica, unveiled that the ministry has invested over $30 million behind setting up of a completely integrated tourism website that has been developed in juxtaposition with Google and will be hosted in June.
“That’s the game-changer that we’ve been looking for to enable a platform in which all players can now come and populate with their content,” said Bartlett, while expressing views at a Smart Destination Workshop held last week Friday.
In a release today, the ministry, explained that this would permit small vendors, classified as small and medium tourism enterprises, to have access.
“The big word for us in smart tourism is access and Jamaica will provide access for visitors from all over the world,” said Bartlett.
Bartlett further emphasized that he believed in public and private sectors coming together to show the utilization of technology in the forward thrust to expand tourism, as “a phenomenal development and it is putting Jamaica at the cutting edge of the new tourism.”
He posited that “it is going to enable us to be sustainable in terms of our development process.”
The tourism minister considered that the workshop as “being central in terms of creating and mapping out this new architecture for tourism” and supported in having this forum more often than once a year.
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