Hospitality Experts Clarke and Azeez Bring Abilities to CHTA Board

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Affiliation Education and learning Basis (CHTAEF) is welcoming two new trustees into the fold who will assist provide on the foundation’s mission to assistance Caribbean hospitality gurus in their careers.

“We are happy to welcome Heidi Clarke and Noorani Azeez to our board of volunteer trustees,” explained CHTAEF chair Karolin Troubetzkoy. “They have a prosperity of know-how to share with the hospitality professionals we guidance, and they share in our motivation to the betterment of this sector and everyone in it.”

Heidi Clarke, govt director of the Sandals Foundation, has managed growth tasks across eight Caribbean islands, focusing on the spots of education and learning, atmosphere and local community.

Clarke, who researched little one psychology and schooling at the College of Miami, also has practical experience performing with abused youngsters and beneath-resourced schools in the South Florida local community.

Born and elevated in Jamaica, she has demonstrated a enthusiasm for services and determination to neighborhood growth by huge-ranging volunteer work. Clarke is a certified activity warden with the National Atmosphere and Preparing Company and sits on the boards of the South West Coast Fish Sanctuary Alliance, the Fish Sanctuary Network, the North East Regional Wellness Authority Fundraising Committee, and the Culloden Early Childhood Institute.

At present serving as CEO of the Saint Lucia Lodge and Tourism Affiliation as nicely as president of the Caribbean Society of Resort Association Executives (CSHAE), Noorani Azeez has considerable tourism working experience, information and insight.

Azeez has also been a human resources marketing consultant with the Human Development Community for 12 a long time and formerly sat on the board of administrators for the Soufrière Maritime Management Association.

He offers back to his local community in a lot of strategies, however potentially most notably through his function with the Lions Club of Gros Islet in the north of St. Lucia.

The Caribbean Resort and Tourism Affiliation Instruction Basis offers coaching for existing hospitality marketplace experts and scholarships for the upcoming generation of Caribbean tourism superstars. Money elevated by CHTAEF assisted coach more than 750 hospitality employees in 2019 and, in the previous 5 decades, have provided much more than 80 scholarships.

Its volunteer trustees give their time, products and services and products to aid the progress of younger Caribbean individuals needing a profession in tourism and hospitality, as effectively as Caribbean nationals who are currently utilized in the industry and want to up grade their competencies and knowledge to even more their vocation paths.

The foundation’s present trustees contain Omar Robinson, main working officer of Arya Resorts Management (Jamaica) Magnus Alnebeck, general supervisor of the Pelican Bay Hotel (Bahamas) Ernest Dwight, founder and former president of SouthWood (United States) Mike Hampton, professor and former dean at the Chaplin Faculty of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Florida Global College (United States) Amrita Bhalla, founder of AB Consulting (Canada) Richard Doumeng owner and taking care of director of Bolongo Bay Beach Vacation resort (U.S. Virgin Islands) Nadine Rankin, joint CEO at AMG (United Kingdom) Neil Forrester, principal at Azingo Hospitality (Antigua) Neil Kolton, director, Caribbean, Florida and Southeast, organization development at Interval International (United States) Gilda Gumbs-Samuel, CEO of the Anguilla Lodge and Tourism Affiliation (Anguilla) and chair Troubetzkoy, government director of Internet marketing and Operations of Jade Mountain and Anse Chastanet resorts (St. Lucia).