Caribbean Tourism Organization Names Hugh Riley Interim Secretary General

The Caribbean Tourism Organization’s (CTO) Director of Marketing for the Americas, Hugh Riley, has been chosen as the Interim Secretary General of the organization.

He replaces the late Arley Sobers, who died earlier this month. Mr Riley had assumed the position at the beginning of July when the Bahamian Secretary General, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, returned home to become Minister of Tourism and Aviation.

Mr Riley will act in the position while the CTO’s Executive Committee completes the search for a new Secretary General. During this period, Deputy Director for Projects and Administration, Sylma Brown Bramble, will act in Mr Riley’s substantive post.

The new interim secretary general was appointed Director of Marketing for the Americas in March 2002 and has since overseen the Caribbean’s marketing programme in the United States of America and Canada.

He is also co-Chief Operating Officer of the Caribbean Tourism Development Company (CTDC), the marketing and business development unit owned equally by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) and the CTO.