Points of Information questions

1. Did you calculate the average growth rate of tourist arrivals for Jamaica
per year for any recent period of time?

2. What benchmarks, standards or risk assessment methods did you use to

measure the risk of over-tourism?

3. How do distinguish between normal tourism growth and overtourism in

the context of Jamaica?

4. If you say the risk of over-tourism is significant for Jamaica, where are
the social and quality of life indicators like what is well documented in
places that start to or are experiencing real over-tourism?

5. Where is the evidence that Jamaica will suddenly have an

unprecedented inflow of tourists to trigger overtourism indicators?

6. Given Jamaica’s low 3 to 5 per cent average rate in tourist arrivals per
year for the last decade, aren’t irresponsible locals and industrial waste
like bauxite waste entering our waterways greater threats to the
environment now and demand more attention?

7. Have you accounted for other factors that may affect house and land
prices on the coast like economic growth, new infrastructure like
highways and inflation?