Chief Executive Officer of the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board (NPIPB), Joy Jibrilu spoke to reporters about the impact of crime on tourism while attending a press event at the Queen’s Staircase on Monday.
Jibrilu said, “crimes against our visitors have been negligible. If you think last year, the records look like we’re going to hit 9 million or just over. And if you measure the percentage of recorded crimes a visitor, I think someone did a calculation and it’s 0.00017%, incredible. I don’t think there is anywhere else that you will see a statistic like that. Jamaica is promoting that theirs is 0.03% and we can say that we’re even lower. And so that’s something that we should celebrate, that we should be proud of.”
The NPIPB Chief Executive added, “I just spoke with NAD and they’ve had a robust start to February. We know that the advisory came out at the end of January. of course initially there were some concerns, I think that’s natural, but the message that we keep saying, we’re fortunate people call and they say okay I’ve read this what can I expect. And when you let them know that were a level two that hasn’t changed for about four years. When you talk about every single European city and country pretty much that’s level 2. So that’s Northern Europe, Denmark, Sweden, that people look at as some of the safest places in the world. When you look at Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and we see we’re in the same level as them. Now I think it will be remiss of all of us to say come and just be free. As we are as locals, we are careful where we go and as in any big city I urge people be cautious.”
The United States and Canada issued travel advisories in January after a spate of murder beginning at the start of the year.
