Staging a comeback after pandemic, Jamaica’s key travel show, JAPEX2023, got off to a flying start with over 110 international buyer companies turning up at Montego Bay recently. Donovan White, Director of Tourism, Jamaica Tourist Board, tells India Outbound, that his main tasks include re-establishing JAPEX as a key event on global travel calendar and to develop new markets, notably India. White adds that Jamaica has lined up a series of activities to engage intensively with Indian travel trade and to boost air connectivity between the two countries.

The United Nations World Tourism Day has set sustainability as the key focus theme for the World Tourism Day 2023. For Destination DC, the tourism marketing organisation of Washington DC, the capital of the United States, sustainability has been a key focus for long, making the city the first urban destination in the world to bag LEED-Platinum certification, says Elliott L Ferguson, II, Destination DC President and CEO.

As the lower house of the Parliament in the Netherlands pushed through a controversial bill to tax even passengers transiting through Schipol Airport, the national carrier KLM has criticized the move, saying it would have disastrous economic impact on the airline, the airport as well as the aligned businesses.