Glamour Destination Management (Glamour Tours)

In Depth

Glamour Destination Management Company is one of Jamaica’s leading destination management companies. With its head office located in Montego Bay, the main tourist hub in the North-West of the island, Glamour DMC provides a comprehensive range of services. The company caters to independant, individual travellers, offering airport transfers, island tours and tailor-made weddings. Glamour DMC has a wealth of knowledge and experience in handling large groups and events for conventions, meetings, conferences and incentives - MICE travel. Finally they provide tour operator representation for in-bound travel organisers.

Originally known as Glamour Tours, the company re-branded to Glamour Destination Management Company in 2008 to reinforce its expansion of services and destinations. Created in 1987 by Chairman and Managing Director Roy Anderson and co-director Myrtle Dwyer, Glamour started out as a tour company providing transfers and island tours. However their rationale was always to provide a wider range and professional level of ground handling services, at a standard that did not exist in Jamaica at that time. The introduction of programme planning for groups staying at Half Moon resort resulted in the eventual evolution of Glamour Tours into a destination management company. By 2005 it owned its own fleet of luxury buses and cars and had a full portfolio of services. Testament to its success is their ongoing relationship with Half Moon, A Rock Resort, one of Jamaica’s leading resort hotels. They have a tour desk there and have provided ground handling services for the resort since 1989. More recently, Glamour DMC has extended its services to the Cayman Islands and Turks & Caicos Islands.

As an individual traveller you are most likely to come across Glamour DMC through their island tours or Concierge Services, in which they can organise the details of your trip on island for you.  However, the company also caters to groups. This might be a wedding for 100 or a conference for 1000. Glamour DMC have a dedicated wedding department, which can tailor-make the entire event for you, whatever the size. As well as taking you through the regulations and the ceremony, they can arrange cocktail parties, rehearsal dinners and even stag and hen parties.

In addition, Glamour's groups department has handled hundreds of incentive and convention groups over the years, some with as many as a thousand delegates. The department's team has developed a great understanding of the market's needs, and uses its extensive local knowledge and experience to organise the best outside activities for delegates and accompanying non-participants. While Glamour often work with Half Moon, A Rock Resort, which has extremely extensive facilities, they are also happy to arrange events in any number of other locations and venues.

The team at Glamour DMC comprises twenty-nine permanent staff with additional freelance staff called upon when necessary. The main team comprises of: Roy C Anderson, Managing Director; Myrtle Dwyer, Director with responsibility for Sales & Marketing; Rachel Anderson, Director with responsibility for Business Expansion.