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Tourism honcho predicts bleak winter

WESTERN BUREAU: The raging COVID-19 pandemic has severely dampened prospects of a resurgent winter tourist season, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), Clifton Reader, has forecast. In an unusually sombre letter to members...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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