Jamaica tourist arrivals jump over 2019

After the close of Jamaica’s borders to visitors in March 2020, tourist arrivals continue to recover rapidly, with passenger movements climbing by 17 percent in September and 10 percent in October over the same periods in 2019, data from the local airports show.  
According to the data, passenger movement through the Sangster International Airport increased 10 percent over 2019, with 317,100 arrivals and departures compared with 287,800 in 2019 and 208,700 in 2021, while Kingston’s Norman Manley Airport processed 140,900 passengers in October this year, 3.75 percent more than the 135,807 that passed through the airport in the capital of the country in 2019 and 81 percent more than the 77,900 passengers in 2021.
For the year to October, 3.54 million passengers passed through the Sangster International Airport, up 80 percent over 2021 but 9.4 percent below 2019, with June and August being marginally higher than for the same periods in 2019 but with September 17 percent more than in 2019.
Kingston saw 1.27 million passenger movements to October this year, 97 percent more than in 2021 with 643,800 but less than the 1,545,949 movements in 2019.