LOCAL BOOKING agents in the hotel industry are predicting that Jamaicans will maintain recent trends of vacationing at home, as COVID restrictions are easing in the country and globally.
With borders closed at times and travel grounded to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the hotel industry literally shut down. And, it wasn’t until travel agents and hoteliers started banging heads, working out deals and pushing business heavily towards the local market that things started to turn around.
Locals have since made a habit of spending time in local hotels and experts in the business believe that behaviour will not cease.
“Basically what we’ve realised since the pandemic is a lot of local persons are being attracted to resorts, they’ve been actively booking hotels now. We see an increase in locals booking these hotels for years to come,” said Kareem Lewis, CEO, KML Enterprise, a top local travel agency.
