The Caribbean Resort and Tourism Affiliation (CHTA) is heading into the 2022-2024 biennium with a brand new slate of vice presidents in assist of present President Nicola Madden-Greig of the Courtleigh Hospitality Group in Jamaica.
On the group’s annual normal assembly final month, St. Lucian hotelier Sanovnik Destang, govt director of Bay Gardens Resorts Group was confirmed as the brand new first vice chairman. The award-winning Destang is a chartered accountant and chartered monetary analyst and a former president of the Saint Lucia Hospitality and Tourism Affiliation.
Second vice chairman is Gregor Nassief, chairman & CEO of GEMS Holdings Restricted, which owns the favored Secret Bay and Fort Younger Resort in Dominica. Nassief beforehand served as deputy chairman of Uncover Dominica Authority and president of the Dominica Resort & Tourism Affiliation.
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The third vice chairman is Federico Moreno-Nickerson, vice chairman of Growth for AMResorts/Apple Leisure Group. Initially from Mexico, Moreno-Nickerson has served on CHTA’s Govt Committee since 2017. His huge expertise over 30 years within the hospitality trade contains being a founding member of the World Heritage Alliance between Expedia Inc. and the United Nations Basis.
Paola Rainieri de Diaz has been named CHTA’s 4th vice chairman. She is previous president of the Resort and Tourism Affiliation of the Dominican Republic (ASONAHORES), and a chief advertising and marketing officer for Grupo Punta Cana within the Dominican Republic.
Invoice Clegg, a long-time supporter of the CHTA, will proceed to function fifth vice chairman. As regional director, Franchise Growth at Greatest Western Accommodations & Resorts, he’s liable for the mid-Atlantic and Caribbean areas. Previous to that he served for greater than twenty years in numerous govt management roles with Selection Accommodations.
Jim Hepple, the proprietor of Tourism Analytics, whose tourism expertise spans the size and breadth of the Caribbean, stays treasurer of CHTA. A former president and CEO of the Aruba Resort and Tourism Affiliation, the Aruba-based Hepple has served quite a few tourism companies within the area on the highest govt degree.
“I look ahead to working intently with these unimaginable leaders,” stated Madden-Greig, who defined they signify a gaggle with the proper mixture of “experience, expertise and power” to take the regional affiliation ahead over the following two years.
Madden-Greig, who has served the affiliation with distinction over the previous yr – together with main CHTA’s manufacturing of the fortieth Caribbean Journey Market in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in addition to mounting the primary annual Caribbean Journey Discussion board – stated rising from the COVID-19 pandemic there’s higher recognition of the necessity to embrace continued studying, collaboration and innovation to take Caribbean tourism to the following degree.
“It’s the intention of the CHTA Govt in 2023 to forge new partnerships in direction of tackling the local weather disaster, leveraging expertise, and shepherding extra Caribbean entrepreneurs alongside the trail in direction of sustainable wealth creation throughout the area,” Madden-Greig acknowledged.