This is Gail Henry’s debut at the Sustainable Tourism Conference. She is the official of CTO for this STC, and for several months she has been dedicated in soul and spirit to the programming and organization of this important event. Now, expectations are growing, new flights are announced to make it easy to attend, and more and more tourism professionals are interested in attending this conference that will take place in Barbados from May 9th-12th of this year.
Belgium-based Cuba Specialist now in Canada.
Belgium-based Transnico International, which began operation in 1992 sending Europeans to Cuba, has now set up shop in Canada, offering Canadians the lights of vacations in such tourism mainstays as Havana and Varadero, as well as other parts of Cuba.
Sharon Logan has been in the tourism industry since 1990. Before starting with Half Moon she worked with several properties on the Island, but confesses that “Half Moon was one of my favorites in the entire Caribbean, and after having worked here for several years, I see what it really takes in the hotel industry to make it successful.”
For over a decade Michele Olivier has been working in the Caribbean Resort Marketing and she holds a Masters degree in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing from Johnson & Wales University.
Q & A with Gerardo Steward Murray, General Director of the Casa Grande Hotels, owners and operators of the Wyndham Casa Grande Monterrey (formerly the Radisson Casa Grande Monterrey Valle)
Wyndham Worldwide started business in 1954, when a Group of investors proudly opened the first Wyndham Inn in Flagstaff, Arizona and sold its first franchise that same year. Today, Wyndham Worldwide has 7,000 hotels in more than 66 countries and world presence.
Caribbean News Digital sat down with Paul Pennicook, International Lifestyle Worldwide representative for SuperClubs, during WTM 2009 in London. In this exclusive interview, Mr. Pennicook went over some recent reflagging and rebranding SuperClubs’ signature resorts and properties have been involved in, plus a few more strategic moves scheduled for the upcoming months. All in all, the successful Jamaica-based hotel chain sails confidently into the future –amid stormy and choppy economic seas- and continues to put its smart money on the Caribbean, showing its front office’s commitment to one of the very best world regions in terms of travel and tourism.