Annual Travel Statistics 2011.pdf - Jamaica Tourist Board

INTRODUCTIONThe statistics contained in this publication cover visitor arrivals, accommodation utilization, andvisitor expenditure.Tourism data from all the Embarkation/Disembarkation (E/D) Cards were entered in a computersystem located at the Corporate Head Office, Jamaica Tourist Board, Kingston. The data onstopovers, including demographics, were derived from this source.Jamaican nationals resident abroad and who visited Jamaica are included in the visitor arrival figures.Jamaica has conformed with "Recommendations on Tourism Statistics" prepared by the WorldTourism Organization and adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) in 1993.These recommendations state that nationals who reside abroad and who return as visitors shouldbe included in Tourism Statistics. The Jamaica Tourist Board has been publishing visitor arrivalfigures on Non-Resident Jamaicans since 1989.Fly-cruise passengers i.e. Cruise Passengers flying into the island to meet the cruise ship are notincluded in tourist arrival figures, unless they spend at least one night in land-based accommodation.Data on cruise ship arrivals were obtained from the ships' manifests.Visitor accommodation figures such as hotel occupancy rates, room capacity, employment inaccommodation, were collected directly from the establishments. Estimates were made, using E/Dcard information, for some non-compliant properties.v