THE HIGHLIGHT OF the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association’s (BHTA) 65th Anniversary Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, will be the honouring of industry founders.
The business segment of the meeting starts at 3:30 p.m., and will feature reports on the past year by chairman Roseanne Myers and chief executive officer Rudy Grant. The election of officers to serve on the board of directors, including chairman elect, second vice chairman, director of direct tourism services and director of finance, will also occur during this session.
At the conclusion of the business segment, the 65th Anniversary Awards and Recognition Dinner is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. This includes the feature address by Minister of Tourism and International Transport Richard Sealy, followed by the awards ceremony and entertainment.
Myers stated: “This year’s AGM and awards will be a great celebration for us. Sixty-five years is a really long time for an organisation to be in existence and to be as vibrant as the BHTA has been and we really want to honour this.
“So to mark this special milestone, we want to pay tribute to a number of persons who have made significant contributions to the Association and the industry, including our past Presidents, Life Time Achievers, Executive Directors and partners.”
Myers added: “Persons who have been founders and perhaps people have forgotten the contribution they made to pull the private sector together so that we could work hand in hand with the public sector in terms of making Barbados the destination that it has become. These are the persons we want to honour this year. We will also be paying tribute to the entertainment industry with a musical package to honour some of the artistes who have been associated with the industry over the years.” (PR)
