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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Caribbean hotel group elects new executive

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MON­TEGO BAY–The Caribbean So­ci­ety of Ho­tel As­so­ci­a­tion Ex­ec­u­tives (CSHAE) held its An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence, spon­sored by Amer­i­can Re­sort De­vel­op­ment As­so­ci­a­tion–Re­sort Own­ers' Coali­tion (AR­DA-ROC), pri­or to Caribbean Trav­el Mar­ket­place where mem­bers vot­ed for its ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee for the 2014-16 term.As­so­ci­a­tion ex­ec­u­tives from 14 ho­tel as­so­ci­a­tions met and elect­ed the fol­low­ing in­di­vid­u­als to the CSHAE ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee:

�2 Pres­i­dent–Gil­da Gumbs-Samuel, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, An­guil­la Ho­tel & Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

�2 Vice Pres­i­dent–Neil For­rester, gen­er­al man­ag­er, An­tigua Ho­tels & Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

�2 Trea­sur­er–Stacey Cox, as­so­ci­a­tion ex­ec­u­tive, Turks & Caicos Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

�2 Sec­re­tary–Irene Ding­jan, CEO, Bonaire Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

�2 Chair­man–Lisa Hamil­ton, pres­i­dent, Unit­ed States Vir­gin Is­lands Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

Oth­er mem­bers elect­ed to the CSHAE Board of Di­rec­tors in­clude:

�2 Sue Springer, ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent, Bar­ba­dos Ho­tel & Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

�2 Clar­isa Jimenez, pres­i­dent and CEO, Puer­to Ri­co Ho­tel & Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

�2 Louan­na Chai-Alves, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, Trinidad Ho­tels. Restau­rants and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

�2 Jim Hep­ple, pres­i­dent and CEO, Aru­ba ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion

"I am ex­treme­ly hum­bled that the as­so­ci­a­tion ex­ec­u­tives think high­ly of my work over the years and have placed con­fi­dence in me to lead the CSHAE group of ex­ec­u­tives for the next two years," said Gumbs-Samuel. "I am proud of the fact that the CSHAE pres­i­den­cy is held for the first time by an ex­ec­u­tive from An­guil­la and look for­ward to work­ing with the dy­nam­ic group of as­so­ci­a­tion ex­ec­u­tives from oth­er Caribbean coun­tries to en­hance the state of the hos­pi­tal­i­ty and tourism in­dus­tries with­in the re­gion."

The ex­ec­u­tives dis­cussed the role each des­ti­na­tion's as­so­ci­a­tion plays in the over­all suc­cess of the re­gion''s tourism in­dus­try and the im­por­tance of de­vel­op­ing a strong part­ner­ship with the lo­cal tourist boards.They al­so dis­cussed is­sues and con­cerns fac­ing each coun­try in­clud­ing lo­cal gov­ern­ment chal­lenges, lack of ad­e­quate mar­ket­ing funds, air lift and ex­ces­sive tax­a­tion.

The CSHAE is a pro­fes­sion­al as­so­ci­a­tion whose mem­bers in­clude the top ex­ec­u­tives and se­nior man­agers from the re­gion's pri­vate-sec­tor led ho­tel and tourism-re­lat­ed or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Its pri­ma­ry fo­cus is to serve as a net­work for the re­gion's as­so­ci­a­tions by sup­port­ing the pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment of the staff and vol­un­tary lead­er­ship; fa­cil­i­tat­ing the gath­er­ing and flow of in­for­ma­tion; ad­vanc­ing pro­grams in sup­port of re­gion­al ad­vo­ca­cy and prod­uct im­prove­ment ef­forts; and work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with the Caribbean Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (CHTA) in achiev­ing mu­tu­al goals.


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