Dona Regis-Prosper
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, July 13, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the premier tourism improvement company for 25 Caribbean nations and territories, has appointed Dona Regis-Prosper the new Secretary-General and Chief Govt Officer. Starting her task on September 1, 2023, Regis-Prosper, who hails from St. Lucia, is ready to make historical past as the first lady to imagine management of the intergovernmental physique.
With a formidable profession that spans greater than 22 years, Regis-Prosper brings an unparalleled depth and breadth of information and expertise in the tourism trade to the CTO. She has lived and labored in a number of Caribbean locations, and served as Director of Advertising and Product Growth of the St. Lucia Air and Seaports Authority; Director of Enterprise Growth for Margaritaville Caribbean Group in Jamaica; CEO of the Tortola Pier Park in the British Virgin Islands; and Common Supervisor of the Antigua Cruise Port the place she is at present employed.
Chairman of the CTO, Kenneth Bryan, who’s the Minister of Tourism and Ports of the Cayman Islands, welcomed Regis-Prosper to the regional physique. “We’re extraordinarily happy to have Dona Regis-Prosper come on board to steer the CTO. Her huge expertise, strategic perception, and spectacular monitor document in the tourism sector make her an distinctive option to propel our group into a brand new period,” he said, including that having extra ladies in positions of affect enhances the effectivity of the area’s main financial earner and sends optimistic messages of encouragement and inspiration for girls and ladies throughout the Caribbean.
A dynamic and transformative chief who has constructed and sustained a powerful community of professionals in each the public and non-public sector (working carefully with regional authorities officers, tourism stakeholders, and trade professionals), Regis-Prosper emerged as the best choice from a pool of greater than 60 extremely certified candidates. The rigorous choice course of included a number of rounds of interviews and a complete evaluation associated to addressing some of the most urgent points confronted by the regional tourism trade.
Chairman Bryan disclosed that all through the choice course of, ministers, commissioners and administrators lauded Regis-Prosper’s transformational management model. “They discovered her to be modern, forward-thinking, results-driven, and solution-oriented,” he stated, noting that her perspective on managing the local weather disaster was notably well-received, illustrating her deep-seated ardour for sustainability and her capacity to develop sensible options to vital trade points.
Regis-Prosper takes over the group’s management reins from Performing Secretary Common and CEO Neil Walters, CTO’s Director of Finance and Useful resource Administration, who has been filling the place following the retirement of Barbadian Hugh Riley in 2019. The opposite two Caribbean tourism professionals to serve in the area’s prime tourism put up embody the late tourism stalwart Jean Holder and Vincent Vanderpool Wallace, former Bahamas Director Common and Bahamas Minister of Tourism.
Of her new position, Regis-Prosper said, “I’m deeply honored to have been chosen to function Secretary Common of the CTO and am grateful for the belief and confidence the CTO Council of Ministers and Commissioners of Tourism and the Board of Administrators have positioned in me. I eagerly stay up for working with our devoted crew and various stakeholders to advertise the Caribbean tourism sector, champion sustainability, and proceed to foster impactful relationships and ship ROI for our members.”
With a Grasp of Enterprise Administration diploma, Licensed Skilled Marketer qualification, and important expertise in enterprise improvement, technique, advertising and marketing and sustainability, Regis-Prosper is nicely in a position to lead the Caribbean tourism sector right into a vivid and affluent future, Chairman Bryan asserted.
About the Caribbean Tourism Organization
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), headquartered in Barbados, is the Caribbean’s tourism improvement company, comprising membership of the area’s most interesting nations and territories, together with Dutch-, English- and French-speaking, in addition to a spread of non-public sector allied members. The CTO’s imaginative and prescient is to place the Caribbean as the most fascinating, year-round, warm-weather vacation spot, and its goal is Main Sustainable Tourism – One Sea, One Voice, One Caribbean.
Amongst the advantages to its members, the group gives specialised help and technical help in sustainable tourism improvement, advertising and marketing, communications, advocacy, human useful resource improvement, occasion planning & execution, and analysis & data know-how.
The CTO’s headquarters is positioned at Baobab Tower, Warrens, St. Michael, Barbados BB 22026; Tel: (246) 427-5242; Fax: (246) 429-3065; E-mail: CTObarbados@caribtourism.com.
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