ST JAMES, Jamaica — Tourism minister Edmund Bartlett has disclosed that Jamaica and the Dominican Republic will on Tuesday (tomorrow) sign a multi-destination agreement aimed at creating access to a combined larger market.

“Tomorrow, we will sign the multi-destination MoU with the Dominican Republic when the current minister and president.. and the minister of tourism comes for lunch with our prime minister. We signed in Cuba already and in January, we will sign with Mexico,” minister Bartlett disclosed this afternoon during a Multi-destination Tourism in the Caribbean-Current Trends and Future Prospects Round table.

The discussions are part of the United Nations-World Trade Organization (UNWTO) international tourism conference being held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre here.

Bartlett also stated that he is of the opinion that the Caribbean is well structured to benefit economically from multi-destination.

“I believe that we are well positioned in the region because of how we are structured geographically – the Northern / Western Caribbean and the Eastern / Southern Caribbean- and I believe that all of us within that configuration are within an hour to an hour-and-a-half from each other and it makes sense. And we are going to do it because we are not into the political logic but the economic logic,” Bartlett argued.

Anthony Lewis