Jamaica looks forward to tourism boom after waiving visa for Eastern Europeans

Samantha Shankman

March 16th, 2013 at 4:22 AM EDT

Photo Credit: A photographer waits in the water for tourists to come for a trip on his fishing boat. Flickr / Leonidas Konstantinidis

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Relaxed visa regulations are the quickest path to tourism growth as Jamaica first saw when Latin American arrivals increased 50 percent following a regional visa relaxation.

The United Nations tourism agency today welcomed the decision by the Government of Jamaica to relax visa regulations for tourists originating in a number of Eastern European countries, while also exte

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