Last Updated on March 3, 2020, 4:53 AM AST by Anthony Morris
A magnificent new destination hotel complex by Karisma Hotels and Resorts has officially been announced to be opened in Jamaica.
The estimated cost of the multi-hotel Sugarcane Bay Jamaica project is 1 billion US dollars. The project is set on 226 acres in Llandovery in Jamaica’s garden parish of St Ann.
Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, who was on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony, told that the project is expected to have approximately 4700 hotel rooms.
The project is being seen as a significant step for Jamaica and its growing series of new hotels. The series that is amongst the largest in the wider Caribbean region according to hotel benchmark.
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness said Significant investments had been made in the Hotel industry already and these investments have proved to be able to generate significant returns in the past. He added that Investors know that investing in Jamaica is a profitable business.
The tourism Minister Bartlett said that the new project would prove out to be a new chapter in the tourism identity of St Ann and would also create around 10,000 jobs.
Bartlett told the Karisma team that they are very excited about the partnership and he wants to say to the Karisma team that this is a significant moment that the Karisma team is showing confidence in destination Jamaica.
He added that it is an important moment also because it portrays that it is being said to the world that even though the current situation that Jamaica is facing, tourism is still the energizer of economic activities worldwide.
This massive new project is part of Jamaica’s already stated plan to add around 15,000 new hotel rooms to the destination over the period of the next three to five years.
Karisma is in the midst of its growth push, with plans to debut a major new Caribbean resort in Cancun later this month in partnership with Margaritaville.
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