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Adam Stewart Named Executive Chairman Of Sandals Resorts International
January 19, 2021 GMT
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Sandals Resorts International has announced Adam Stewart’s appointment as the resort company’s Executive Chairman. Stewart becomes just the second Chairman in the company’s 40-year history. He is preceded by his late Father and Chairman, the Hon. Gordon “Butch” Stewart, a pioneer in Caribbean tourism who broke the ceiling of all-inclusive luxury after founding the organization in 1981 and played a pivotal role in bolstering the region’s popularity.
Adam Stewart named Sandals’ new Executive Chairman, ACV pays tribute to father and founder
Date: Jan 19 2021
MONTEGO BAY Adam Stewart has been appointed Sandals Resorts International’s new Executive Chairman following the passing of his father, the Hon. Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, earlier this month.
The elder Stewart, who passed away on Jan. 4 at the age of 79, founded Sandals Resorts in 1981 and later Beaches Resorts and was widely considered across the Caribbean and the travel and tourism industry as a visionary, innovator and pioneer of the all-inclusive concept.
Said the younger Stewart on the company’s next steps: “My father’s shoes are impossible to fill but we will follow in his groundbreaking footsteps to continue the important work we all set out to do together. As a company and as a team, we are poised for the future. We are already leading the industry in recovering from the greatest setback in the history of travel. We will continue to lead not
Redefining the way the world goes on vacation
January 15, 2021
Legendary Jamaican entrepreneur Gordon “Butch” Stewart, one of the hospitality industry’s most vibrant personalities and founder of Sandals Resorts International, the world’s leading all-inclusive resort company, died at the age of 79 on January 4, 2021. An unstoppable force, who delighted in defying the odds by exceeding expectations, Stewart single-handedly built the world’s most awarded vacation brand from one resort in Jamaica to over two dozen distinct resorts and villas throughout the Caribbean, redefining the way the world goes on vacation.
A son of Jamaica, Butch Stewart was born in Kingston on July 6, 1941, and grew up along the island country’s North Coast, a tropical paradise that now boasts several of his Luxury Included® Sandals and Beaches Resorts and where his love of the sea, dominoes, and free enterprise were sown. Certain from the start that he wanted to run his own company, at the tender