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Apr 8th 2021, 17:02 Petra Roach is leaving Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI) to take up a new role with the Grenada Tourism Authority later this year. She joined the Barbados tourism board in 2002 and is currently global head of markets and interim chief executive. Roseanne Myers, BTMI chairman, said: “On behalf of the board, management and staff we say a sincere thank you to Petra Roach for her years of service and leadership. “She has been a tremendous asset to Barbados for two decade...

Airport deputy CEO quits Article by April 8, 2021 The deputy head of the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Terry Layne has quit his post to take up new duties at the catering company that serves the airport, in yet another high-profile departure of a public official at the helm of tourism. Layne, whose resignation as deputy chief executive officer takes effect at the end of May, is to move to GCG Catering, the Goddard Enterprises flight kitchen subsidiary that serv...

Article by Social Share Two key figures in Barbados’ tourism have quit their top posts. Head of global markets at the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), Petra Roach, yesterday confirmed that she had resigned after 26 years and would be taking up a new job, while deputy chief executive officer of Grantley Adams International Airport Inc (GAIA), Terry Layne, confirmed he would be departing May 31 and moving on to a new job. Roach, who has had a distinguished career and has been the f...

BTMI chief calls it quits Article by April 7, 2021 Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Incorporated (BTMI) Petra Roach has resigned from the State-run agency. Roach, who had been acting in the position for the past six months, said the decision to quit was not easy. However, while not disclosing what her next move would be, she said she felt it was time for the next challenge. “They say that rather than stagnating when you have climbed yo...

Social Share Grenada is expected to officially announce the appointment of Barbadian tourism specialist Petra Roach as that country’s new director of tourism today. This was revealed in a newscast by the Florida-based CARIBUPDATE News Service which covers the Caribbean. According to the news report, the announcement will be made in St George’s, making Roach the third CEO of the Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) since it became a statutory body seven years ago. Roach is the third successive...

December 19, 2020 Former tourism minister Richard Sealy has slammed the Government’s management of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI) over the “outrageous” absence of an official at its helm. Sealy said he could not understand how, at a time when the country’s tourism industry had been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the main entity responsible for marketing tourism has gone without a leader. The post of CEO has remained vacant since the resignation of  William Bi...