{
  "id": 12554093,
  "title": "Bartlett pushes visitor-backed fund to protect Caribbean tourism",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/bartlett-pushes-visitor-backed-fund-to-protect-caribbean-tourism",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-07T05:07:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jamaica Gleaner",
    "slug": "jamaica-gleaner",
    "url": "http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20261007/bartlett-pushes-visitor-backed-fund-protect-caribbean-tourism"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is proposing a visitor-backed fund to help protect the Caribbean’s tourism industry from future shocks. The proposed Caribbean Tourism Resilience Fund bears similarities to Jamaica’s Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), which is also financed by fees collected from visitors.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}