PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica (December 23, 2010) - One of Jamaica's unique eco-tourism resorts is encouraging local stakeholders to get serious about tapping into the little known but huge international faith tourism market.

Dr. Paul Rhodes, proprietor of Port Antonio's Great Huts resort, reported that some 300 million faith-based travelers worldwide spend more than US$18 billion a year.

A new television entity, Antigua Christian Network (ACN), will soon begin broadcasting on the CTV platform on channel 109. ACN is the brainchild of Stan Bowen, the current director of Ecclesiastical affairs for the government of Antigua and Barbuda.