The Belize Tourism Industry Association held its 29th Annual General Meeting today at the Radisson. For outgoing President Herbert Haylock, it was the end of a two year term - and he told us that as an advocacy organization, BTIA has to continue the earn the confidence of its stakeholders - which can be a challenge:..
Herbert Haylock, President, BTIA
"There are a number of things as you rightly say impacting the industry today. We continue to be voicing concerns about those issues and that we take a stand, for example to ensure that development, in terms of the context on development that we want to see for this country continues and the way we would like it to continue."
Jules Vasquez
"Do you lament the fact that BTIA really is not in a great place. I don't think you all have an ED. I don't know that you do and also membership of the BTIA is opportunistic. At best you have a lot of people who aren't engaged."
Herbert Haylock, President, BTIA
"We've spent the last 4 months looking at realigning what are the strategic objectives of BTIA and where we go and what are going to be. We do have what is our critical plan in place going forward for the association and going forward for where we want the association to be for recruiting, for engaging, re-engaging members that have walked away from the association over the years or perhaps lost interest, looking at taking on new members that see value because we've seen interest in terms of what we are doing and the benefits that are accruing from new members that have been coming onboard."
The main event at today's AGM was the election of a new President,. Osmany Salas, who is the current Chairperson of the Orange Walk BTIA Chapter. He has committed to Recruit an Executive Director by February 2015 and, quote, "Significantly increase the BTIA membership."
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