BY STEVEN JACKSON Business reporter jacksons@jamaicaobserver.com Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Jamaican-designed costumes at this years carnival in Trinidad.
Jamaica, which prides itself as a tourism destination worsened nine spots to rank 76 out of 141 countries, allowing Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) to surpass the island in the Global Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2015, released Wednesday.
The report published biennially by the Swiss-based World Economic Forum ranked Barbados at 46, Puerto Rico at 55 and T&T at 69 — the highest rated islands in the Caribbean. Some other countries that border on the Caribbean Sea also had higher ratings: Mexico at 30, Panama at 34, Costa Rica at 42 and Colombia at 68.
