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Monday, December 30, 2013 | 8:53 AMKINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica welcomed its two millionth stop-over visitor for the year on Sunday, December 29 at the Donald Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. At a special reception at the airport Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, Dr Wykeham McNeill, dignitaries from various sectors of the industry and Mayor of Montego Bay, Glendon Harris greeted the visitor Alexis Grenier and her husband Craig from Boston, Massachusetts.Alexis a financier was making her first trip to Jamaica while her public relations husband Craig had visited the island once before.Dr McNeill pointed out that visitor arrivals in 1955 stood at almost 87,000 and had been growing exponentially, passing the one million mark in 2003 when the figure stood at 1.3 million stop-overs, and “today, ten years later, we mark the arrival of our two-millionth stopover visitor.”He added that in 2003 cruise arrival also reached the two million mark. This year, just over 1.4 million cruise passengers are expected to visit the island.“In reaching these milestone achievements, the industry has seen Jamaica establish itself as a major centre of hotel development, to the extent that our hotel developers have been successful at developing international brands that have driven growth here at home and in several other places in the region,” said Dr McNeill.Meanwhile Director of Tourism John Lynch said it was a very good time for tourism in Jamaica at this time with arrivals for October through December being “very good” and “with that kind of momentum going for us it is going to be almost impossible for us to have a bad winter season.”Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver
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