The Jamaica Hotels & Tourism Association (JHTA) has a longstanding reputation as an organization that welcomes local properties and international hotel chains to its membership with open arms as long as they abide by the guidelines established by the Jamaica Tourist Board. Right now, Spanish hotel companies and groups with major investments on the island nation are also pleased to be members of JHTA. About this and other topics, Caribbean News Digital spoke exclusively with JHTA executive director Camille Needham during the 2008 JAPEX in Kingston.
He’s the mastermind of one of the most successful hotel projects the Caribbean region has ever known. His confidence in the future of his company is unwavering, and so is his determination to expand to any nook and cranny of the planet where growth opportunities arise. For the time being, SuperClubs Hotels & Resorts keeps on building momentum, as its President and CEO John Issa said in this exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital during the JAPEX 2008 tradeshow in Jamaica’s Kingston.
Q.- What’s your main responsibility at the helm of this division and in the different European markets?
Havanatur and EuroAtlantic, a company from the Pestana Group, will soon open a new air connection for the Lisbon-Oporto-Havana route beginning July 11, the maiden flight date. The accord will allow stepping up the amount of Portuguese trekkers coming to Cuba and will pave the way for further offer expansion. On this joint agreement, the company’s Executive President Eduardo Pinto Lopez talked exclusively with the CND newspaper.
by Jose Carlos de Santiago (ITB 2008 - Berlin)
Q.- First of all we’d like to know what the position of CHA really is as to the moving of its offices from Puerto Rico to Miami.
A.- Let me clarify for you. What’s taking place is a change in how we do business, let alone the need to achieve the financial sustainability of the organization. We have outsourced functions of the Accounting Department that was based in Puerto Rico.
by Jose Carlos de Santiago
A little longer than six months after taking over as director-general of Pullmantur, Jose Arriola talked exclusively with Caribbean News Digital newsletter about the company’s changes, results and perspectives under his leadership and new working style.