by Jeroslyn JoVonn
July 2, 2025
Jamaica unveiled plans to develop the Caribbean’s tallest lodge.
Jamaica is trying to remodel the Caribbean’s thriving tourism business by growing the area’s tallest lodge and first-ever Tourism Innovation Township.
On June 28, Jamaica unveiled building plans for the 33-story Moon Palace tower in Rose Corridor, St. James, the Jamaica-Gleaner experiences. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett boasted in regards to the historic nature of the event, citing its innovation, scale, and inclusivity.
“This can be a game-changer for tourism within the area,” Bartlett mentioned in the course of the sixty fourth Annual Normal Assembly of the Jamaica Lodge and Vacationer Affiliation. “It will likely be the primary tourism innovation township within the Caribbean, arguably on the earth.”
The Unico, Exhausting Rock, Moon Palace, and Iberostar mega-resorts will welcome the brand new township, turning the world into what’s going to develop into the Caribbean’s largest cluster of lodge rooms in a single space, with over 5,000 rooms all inside strolling distance, Bartlett mentioned. It will likely be developed as a round financial hub the place inns present electrical energy and water to the close by group whereas residents provide the products and companies that assist energy resort operations.
The township goals to revitalize the world by introducing a STEM college, enhancing healthcare amenities, upgrading native colleges, including supermarkets, and supporting the expansion of sunshine manufacturing and cottage industries.
“We’re constructing a mannequin the place yard farming, the manufacturing of condiments, sheets, pillowcases, and different necessities can be finished proper there locally, feeding instantly into the lodge provide chain,” Bartlett mentioned.
“This mannequin brings the folks with it. It doesn’t depart them behind. It’s a future the place tourism doesn’t simply create jobs and builds communities.”
By 2030, Jamaica is ready so as to add 10,000 new lodge rooms by means of main expansions at Concord Cove, Palladium, Bahia Principe, Unico, Exhausting Rock, and Moon Palace resorts, in addition to two new Sandals properties, one in Runaway Bay and the newly introduced AC Marriott in Montego Bay. Along with the township close to Barrett City, additional industrial growth is deliberate on the Rollins lands (Rose Corridor Developments) throughout from the Desires Rose Corridor Resort and Spa (previously Hilton), that includes service stations and stores.
“Montego Bay is on the verge of an unprecedented tourism renaissance,” Bartlett declared. “This can be a stage of coordinated, large-scale funding that we now have by no means seen earlier than, not simply in Jamaica, however within the Caribbean.”
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