Tourist numbers continue to deteriorate in Jamaica with passenger traffic passing through the critically important Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, falling a significant 8.8 percent in October to 319,300 from 350,000 in 2023.
For the capital city of Kingston, traffic passing through the Norman Manley airport rose a solid 8.5 percent to 139,600 from 128,700 in October 2023 and for the year to date a decline of 0.2 percent from 1,467,600 to 1,464,500 in October, this year. experienced a year to date decline by 2.2 percent from 4,313,200 passenger traffic in October 2023 to 4,216,400 with just two more months left in the year, data from Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico operators of the two major international airports in Jamaica reveal in their preliminary data release.