THE BARBADOS HOTEL and Tourism Association (BHTA) has extended congratulations to Patricia Affonso-Dass, who was named the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s (CHTA) president-elect at its annual general meeting last week in Miami.
Affonso-Dass, who served as president of the BHTA from June 2012 to June 2014, is the group general manager at Ocean Hotels.
BHTA chairman Roseanne Myers congratulated the new president-elect and said: “The BHTA is very pleased that as it celebrates 65 years this month, as the oldest national tourism organisation in the Caribbean, one of its recent past presidents Patricia Affonso-Dass has been voted president-elect 2017 of the CHTA.
“It seems only fitting as it was with the urging of the Barbados Hotel Association’s (now BHTA) founding members that the Caribbean Hotel Association was formed and that the subsequent change to CHTA occurred. The BHTA pledges it support for the development of Caribbean tourism and to President-Elect Affonso-Dass throughout her tenure.
Adding to this, CEO of the Association, Rudy Grant, who attended the AGM, said: “Mrs. Affonso-Dass has had an extensive career in the tourism industry in Barbados and the wider Caribbean. We are confident that with her experience and background she will do well in this new post, which will see her moving onto the position of president of the CHTA in a year.
“As a past president of the BHTA, and a board member for several years, the Association has had a long-standing relationship with Mrs Dass and pledge our continued support as she takes on this new venture.” (PR)