ENGLISH – VIETNAMESE

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has announced that as Jamaica heads into what is
expected to be its best summer tourist season ever, the island has already welcomed two
million stopover and cruise visitors since the start of the year. Speaking during his Sectoral
Debate closing presentation in the House of Representatives, he provided important data to
support the historic post-pandemic strides being made in the tourism sector.
“Even before completing the first six months of this year, we have already received a combined
2 million stopover and cruise visitors with record earnings of US$2 billion, 18% above the 2019
earnings for the same time period. It should be no surprise then that Jamaica is bracing for
the best summer tourist season ever,” Minister Bartlett said.
“Jamaica welcomed approximately 3.3 million visitors in 2022 and registered a remarkable
US$3.7 billion recovery of earnings compared to the pre-COVID earnings of 2019. Jamaica is
also experiencing a rise in summer 2023 air travel bookings by 33% as compared to summer
2022 according to data provided by one of the world’s leading travel data analytics firms,
ForwardKeys,” stated Minister Bartlett.
The tourism minister also gave a brief overview of his recent trip to the United States where he
engaged with key partners such as representatives from the Caribbean Tourism Organization
(CTO) and forged a partnership agreement between the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis
Management Centre (GTRCMC) and George Washington University.
Minister Bartlett added: “Our U.S. engagements included a series of meetings and discussions
with leading tourism stakeholders in the airline, cruise and tour operator sub-sectors including
Delta Airlines, Royal Caribbean Group and Expedia. These meetings confirmed that we are
certainly on track to record the best summer in our history, especially considering the visitors
coming from America.”.

No. Vocabulary item Part of speech Meaning

1 stopover and cruise visitors (n) du khách dừng chân & du ngoạn

2 Sectoral Debate (n) Tranh luận Ngành

3 House of Representatives (n) Hạ viện

4 brace for (v) dốc sức

5 register (v) ghi nhận

6 forge (v) tạo ra

7 engagements (n) các hoạt động hợp tác

8 stakeholders (n iu) các bên liên quan

9 sub-sectors (n) phân ngành