Jamaica is on track to surpass five per cent growth annually in tourism, amid projections for growth in the industry regionally to exceed no more than 3.5 per cent up to 2020.

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, giving his sectoral budget presentation in Parliament in Kingston on Tuesday said the island was set to exceed the regional average based on current trends.

Tourism is the single largest earner of foreign exchange in 16 of the 28 countries in the Caribbean and also the sector receiving the most FDI, he said.

Jamaica, he noted ended 2016 with “phenomenal” outcomes.

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