Barbados has taken over chairmanship of the Caribbean Tourism Group (CTO).
Barbados was elected chair yesterday on the CTO’s Ministerial Council assembly held within the Cayman Islands through the group’s annual State of the Tourism Industry Conference (SOTIC).
Minister of Tourism and Worldwide Transport for Barbados, Ian Gooding-Edghill, will chair the Council of Ministers and Commissioners of Tourism, whereas Andrea Franklin, CEO of Barbados Tourism Advertising and marketing, will function chairman of the Board of Administrators.
Barbados is succeeding outgoing chair Cayman Islands, which was led by Minister of Tourism and Ports, Kenneth Bryan, and Director of Tourism, Rosa Harris.
The CTO highlighted that beneath Cayman management, a number of successes have been achieved, together with the re-engagement of members and the return of the US Virgin Islands and Bermuda.
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In a remark, the outgoing chairman stated: “I hope that I’m leaving this group in a stronger place and nicely positioned to satisfy the alternatives and the challenges forward.”
Gooding-Edghill expressed his gratitude for the chance to steer the CTO.
“We’re all on this collectively. We’ve a variety of work to do,” he said. “I additionally need to take this chance to thank my colleague, Minister Bryan…for all that you just’ve contributed over the past two years. Underneath my management, with the assistance of all of my colleagues, we will definitely proceed to advance the reason for the Caribbean Tourism Group.”
Barbados will lead the CTO for a two yr time period.
The Caribbean Tourism Group (CTO), is the area’s tourism growth company, with 25 Dutch, English and French nation members and a myriad of personal sector allied members. The CTO’s imaginative and prescient is to place the Caribbean as probably the most fascinating, year-round, heat climate vacation spot. Its goal is Main Sustainable Tourism – One Sea, One Voice, One Caribbean. The first goal of the CTO is to supply to and thru its members the companies and data crucial for the event of sustainable tourism for the financial and social good thing about the Caribbean folks
