Monday, April 30, 2012

My Jamaican tour at Kingston

Jamaica is a fast developing country and like many other multinational companies, our company too has business interests there. As a part of the business activities I had a chance to visit this island nation once or twice. As our company regularly sends representatives to this place we have several air line agents in our role that provides flight tickets for cheap price. As usual, I had a discussion with these agents for low fare and purchased cheap tickets to Kingston.

Kingston, being the capital of Jamaica, is the centre of all activities in that country. All companies that are operating in this island nation have head quarters in this city. As soon as I reached the international airport, I went straight away to the hotel booked for me in a taxi. The drive through the long sand spit that connects the airport with the heart of city was an interesting thing. The sceneries I have seen through the window were really attractive and I got repented in coming here late.

The city has been founded originally in 1692 as a refugee camp for the survivors of the earthquake. Several people died here in the initial stages due to different diseases. With such adversities, the city has developed to an important business centre south of America and it proves the hard work and the determination of the people here.

In real the development of the city began in 1960’s by the expansion of the downtown water front area. A large number of shopping malls and hotels have come up here and even now this is the main attraction of the city. I could see crowded shopping malls which points to the importance of the city as a hot destination for shopping. When the crowd increased, many airlines started operating flights to Kingston. Thus the city became well connected with the rest of the world.

Being situated in a strategic position, it attracts many international companies to start their regional head quarters here and this in turn helped a lot in the overall development of the city.

The evenings are more beautiful here. The comparatively calm beaches and the musical events make the evenings an unforgettable thing in your life. Many tourists are coming here to enjoy the evenings on beach even from faraway places. The introduction of cheap flights to Kingston by many major airlines helped in increasing the number of visitors.

The city has enough infrastructure facilities to contain large number of crowds. This has been proved during the common wealth games conducted here in 1969. Now the city has come up a lot from those stages and it has all the modern facility to satisfy the visitors. While coming back from Kingston, I have decided to come here once again alone to spend the evenings in the beach and also enjoy the traditional music being performed at various venues.