Boosting Tourism By Promoting Family Fun With Seafood Festivals
You can find a variety of different seafood festivals that have taken place in the Caribbean, with several taking place in Jamaica such as the Ocho Rios Seafood Festival, the Port Royal Seafood Festival, and the Rainforest Seafood & Music Festival, among others.
The Ocho Rios Seafood Festival is one that has previously been designated as one of the top seafood festivals taking place in the Caribbean.
These seafood festivals prevent a unique opportunity for Jamaica to take advantage of the gastro-tourism market, as the Minister of Tourism has previously admitted, by highlighting the seafood cuisine that the island has to offer those who are coming to visit, as well as locals.
Food festivals are a major tourism driver and those tourism authorities in Jamaica have made it clear that they want Jamaica to be recognized as a quality gastronomy destination.
Ultimately, the tourism authorities in Jamaica have admitted that they want family-friendly food events, festivals that are going to drum up business for the local economy and that will help boost earnings overall.
It is clear that they are aiming for a family-oriented theme with their tourist marketing endeavors.
Tourism is already a huge market for Jamaica and they want to increase that, by tapping into the multi-billion dollar market that is the gastro or culinary tourism market.
This includes things such as food fairs, food festivals and events, food tours, cooking workshops, and other food-related activities.
As far as seafood festivals around the world you can find crab festivals, shrimp fests, lobster fests, shrimp & grits fests, and many many others.
A great deal of families that do go on vacation these days are ultimately going to aim for choosing an all-inclusive vacation package. Travel trends also show that for families a beach destination is often high on the list for a potential vacation spot, so having family-friendly events for them to explore on the island is offering them more reason to choose this destination over others.
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@doitvoluntarily, In my opinion in a way we can call Jamaica as Land Of Festivals. Stay blessed. 🙂
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Better travel with a mighty fat wallet. All the accompanying source photos look great.
Nothing like fresh seafood.
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@doitvoluntarily tourism is really important for any country that wants to keep growing,and a seafood festival like this helps to promote tourism and that is a wonderful development for jamaica as a country so the seafood festival is a very wonderful thing...and it also helps to promote love and unity in a country too...thanks or sharing the good information...
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