U.S, April 5 -- Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has expressed that, in developing Jamaica's new Tourism Strategy and Action Plan (TSAP), greater focus will have to be placed on strengthening linkages with other sectors and preventing economic leakages.

He was speaking yesterday at the Spanish Court Hotel as the Jamaica Ministry of Tourism, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), successfully concluded its island wide series of tourism strategy consultation workshops, with the final session being held with stakeholders from the Kingston and St. Andrew destination area.

The tourism minister highlighted that the strategy must have an emphasis on reinforcing linkages between tourism and other productive s...