Above: Barbados Tourism Minister Richard Sealy (CJ Photo)

By Alexander Britell

ST THOMAS —Barbados Tourism Minister Richard Sealy has been elected the new chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization.

Sealy’s election was announced at the opening of the CTO’s State of the Industry conference on Wednesday evening.

He was chosen during the CTO’s Annual General Meeting at the conference, which is being held at the Marriott Frenchman’s Reef and Morning Star resort.

“I look forward to putting my very best foot forward and working along with all of the other entities in the region to deal with some of the vexing problems that we have right now with tourism,” Sealy said following the announcement. “And of course to continue the good work that has been done by this organization recently.”

Sealy succeeds outgoing CTO Chairman Beverly Nicholson-Doty, who is the Tourism Commissioner of this year’s conference host, the US Virgin Islands.

He will serve a two-year term.