An area where tourism is important: Jamaica

​ (a)   largest island in the Caribbean

• 3rd
• 1st
• 5th
• 2nd
• 4th

Attraction to tourists:

• Accessibility: Plenty of airport airline flights from around the world.

• Climate:

  hot, an average of 25 °C, 7 hours a day and an average of 10 hours of sunlight a day.

• Diving and a 7-mile-long beach (Negril Bay)

• The Blue Mountains in the East of Jamaica

• The large biodiversity

Economic impacts from tourism in Jamaica

• Infrastructure and services where local farms sell products such as coffee, sugar, citrus and coconuts

• Infrastructure and services helped develop roads and telecommunication

• Infrastructure and services allows funding of social projects e.g. education. Helps develop roads and telecommunications

• Created new jobs in the tourism industry

Disadvantages of tourism in Jamaica

• Heavy use of resources by tourists.

  (10 times more than the average local) 

• Inappropriate behaviour of tourist e.g. littering.

• Loss of heritage and tradition.

• Locals have low-paid jobs whereas managers have high-paid ones but are ex-pats.

Management of tourism:

• Ecotourism such as landscaping in Montego Bay to make it more attractive.

• Building national parks and museums with entry fees for profit e.g. the Negril Marine Park

• community tourism -

  reggae festival of local residents 

          and selling hats made by the people and food festivals,

• Pro-poor tourism - alleviating poverty in local areas 

      involves strict control of hotel height, and moving away from inclusive tourism

• Local people running small guest-houses, improving lives in Port Antonio

Environmental issues due to tourism:

• Some hotels are an eyesore e.g Falmouth Beach Hotel

• Traffic congestion and pollution at popular locations at popular locations e.g Ocho Rios Marine Park, with 1 hour traffic jams and Montego Bay

• Air traffic from planes into airports, as Montego Bya’s Int. Airport is 56km from Negril

• Power stations from fuelling tourist’s use creates pollution e.g Rockfort Power Plant 

• Coral reefs are being damaged by ship anchors and jet skis

Match the following

• Tourists spend ..... a year 

• 24%

• Employment of ..........people

• 20.6%

• Population

• 90,000

• Employed in the tourist industry

• 2.89 million.

• Relies on the income of the total GDP

• $2.2bn

Historically, Jamaica was taken over and ruled by the ​​ (a)   Empire​

• British
• Spanish
• French
• Dutch

1 in ​​ (a)   ​ Jamaicans are employed in tourism - within hotels, running restaurants, gift

shops and tourist experiences.

• 4
• 5
• 3
• 2

The ​capital city​ of Jamaica

• Basse Terre

• Kingston

• Santo Domingo

• Port Au Prince