CTO appoints sustainability leader

The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has announced the appointment of Dominican Amanda Charles as its sustainable tourism specialist. The CTO said that Charles will coordinate and implement the CTO’s sustainable tourism program, aimed at enhancing the development, growth, quality, competitiveness and sustainability of Caribbean tourism.

Charles is a tourism professional with several years of experience, having worked most recently as the adviser to the directorate of sustainable tourism at the Trinidad-based Association of Caribbean States (ACS), a position she held for five years.She also worked as a tourism specialist consultant at the Organization of American States (OAS) department of economic development, trade and tourism in Washington, DC and as a project consultant at the OAS department of sustainable development.

The CTO said that as the sustainable tourism specialist, she will lead the organization’s agenda which includes “helping to develop quality standards for Caribbean destinations and their tourism products and services; designing, delivering and/or coordinating training and development programs dealing with sustainable tourism and product development” among others.