According to new data from the Jamaica Tourist Board, the country saw 18,000 UK arrivals in December 2021 and 16,000 in November.
 
The latest arrival statistics show the country is "almost on course" to return to pre-pandemic visitors volumes, after British travellers to Jamaica reached 74,290 in 2021 compared to 225,000 in 2019.
 

Edmund Bartlett, the country’s minister of tourism, said: "We are encouraged to see the results of the hard work of everyone in Jamaica to successfully rebuild tourism.

"Our airline partners responded to our careful and thorough resilience planning by committing to return and to increase airlift to Jamaica. We are now poised and ready to welcome all our British visitors to return – particularly in 2022 the year of our sixtieth anniversary of independence."

The strong visitor numbers for December came after Jamaica relaxed its Covid-19 entry requirements.

As of 1 March, arrivals to Jamaica no longer need to complete a travel authorisation form and those aged 12 and older only need to provide a negative antigen test conducted within 72 hours prior to travel.