Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has urged his regional counterparts to use the forum which will be provided at the upcoming Tourism Outlook Seminar (TOS) 2016 to develop a model that will drive growth in regional tourism, despite numerous global challenges.

Singapore will continue to be home to the next three editions of the region’s leading travel trade show: ITB Asia.

ITB Asia is now in its ninth year and this edition is the biggest with strong contributions from Indonesia, Finland and Japan who have increased their exhibition space by more than 60 percent.

One of the keynote speeches at the ongoing Regional Meeting on Surveillance and Control Strategies against Arbovirosis was the one delivered by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, who thanked the government of Cuba for hosting such event and gathering health ministers from the area.

The conference in Jamaica will bring together 157 tourism ministers from around the world, along with around 500 tourism-related companies.

The inaugural Jamaica Travel Market has been hailed a success by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett.