{"id":2154,"date":"2019-02-08T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2019-02-08T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:09:08","slug":"trelawnys-hotel-stock-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Trelawny\u2019s hotel stock rising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shamir Brown<\/em><\/strong> – Trelawny Correspondent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trelawny will see a\nsignificant expansion in tourism room stock with the foresighted developments\nsetting it on a trajectory to become number two in the island in about three to\nfive years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the next three to five years just fewer than eight\nthousand rooms will join the already existing room stock in the parish.\n\u201cRoyalton will be expanded by another twelve hundred rooms, Oyster Bay by five\nhundred rooms, Amatera with twelve hundred rooms and Harmonization with two\nthousand plus rooms, which will contribute to making Trelawny the second\nlargest destination in Jamaica,\u201d said Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Trelawny has over a thousand rooms, but the Minister\ndisclosed that Trelawny will fall only behind St James when the proposed work\ncomes to fruition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was addressing stakeholders in the industry at the official\nground-breaking for the new H10 hotel located at Coral Spring in the parish on\nWednesday February 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The H10 resort, dubbed Ocean Coral Spring, is expected to open its\ndoors in the 2019\/2020 winter tourist season and will add one thousand rooms to\nthe stock in the parish. It comes on the heels of Excellence Oyster Bay, which\nopened its doors to visitors late last year when it opened in the parish and an\nexpansion of Royalton room stock was completed during the course of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minister, however, pointed out that more rooms are also scheduled\nfor St James and there are plans to break ground for a development in Hanover\nlater this year. Other parishes are also set to have more rooms constructed\nover the course of the next few years. This development, he explained, is part\nof a second wave of investments in the tourism sector with the first one\nhappening in the nineties and early two thousands. However, this time, the size\nof the current investment can be categorized as twice the size of the first\none. This new wave, he purports, will bring over fifteen thousand rooms to\nJamaica over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister Bartlett further highlighted that H10 is coming at a time when\nJamaica is better prepared for this new wave of tourism development with more\ntrained individuals now in the workforce. \n\u201cTo match the planned development, it is going to require thirty\nthousand direct jobs, and pretty close to a hundred thousand indirect,\u201d he\nremarked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Destination status<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minister also used the opportunity to declare that Trelawny is to\nget its resort and destination status that will bring with it certain benefits,\none of which will be branding. This will allow Trelawny to be placed on the\ntourism map for visitors to see and therefore aid the building of the brand for\nthe parish. \u201cWe are going to be marketing this area with a special appeal,\u201d he\nremarked.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This news has been welcomed by Member of Parliament for North Trelawny,\nVictor Wright, who described it as a good thing for the parish. He described\nthe developments as meaningful for the parish and looks forward to welcoming\nmore investors in similar fashion. Mayor Colin Gager was also happy for the\nnews and disclosed that the Corporation would work as best to assist in getting\nTrelawny destination status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently, Trelawny has over a thousand rooms, but the Minister disclosed that Trelawny will fall only behind St James when the proposed work comes to fruition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[628,1139,1140,290,314,30],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-edmund-bartlett","tag-hotel-stock","tag-ocean-coral-spring","tag-tourism","tag-trelawny","tag-western-jamaica"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}