The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no more advises Americans to avoid visit Jamaica or Morocco because of the covid-19 threat.
Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, said the brand new travel advisory will help further boost tourism.
“A Level 1 travel advisory is amongst the best news the tourism industry can hope for,” said Minister Bartlett. “This reduced designation is a proof of the job of our government and also the Jamaican people in addition to a hopeful incentive to help keep our tourism recovery moving forward.”
Bartlett also forecasted that the sector will improve significantly by 2023.
“In 2022, Jamaica welcomed a lot more than 1.5 million visitor arrivals to our shores. These visitors' on-island spend contributed over USD $2.095 billion into our country's economy, positively impacting local businesses and tourism stakeholders,” said Minister Bartlett.
“For 2022, the outlook for the tourism sector remains positive with projections for about 2.45 to two.5 million visitor arrivals along with a total visitor spend of approximately USD $2.9 billion.”
Regarding Morocco, the CDC has additionally issued an amount 1 health alert indicating that the country has a low level of COVID -19.
As cases of herpes decline worldwide, one more 25 countries and territories happen to be put into lower-risk categories.
South Africa and the Dominican Republic, which in fact had previously reported high amounts of covid-19, have now been placed at level 2, indicating moderate coronavirus risk.
For the second week consecutively, no new countries were placed in the greatest risk classification.
Nearly 100 destinations have been in the amount 4 category, such as the Uk, Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Hong Kong. Last month, more than 130 destinations were in the highest level.
This suggests that more destinations could be upgraded to better categories over the weeks to come.
