The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Tuesday announced that it had established the Bonita Morgan Memorial Scholarship in honour of its former director of human resources, who died last year after serving 22 years in the post.
The CTO said that the scholarship of up to US$5,000 will be awarded to Caribbean nationals currently employed by national tourism organisations seeking to strengthen their skills in tourism education or human resources development.
“Bonita Morgan dedicated her career to the development of Caribbean people through education and professional training, and her passion guided her work within the CTO. She held the belief that the region needed to develop leaders for this critical industry and so she developed programmes to teach Caribbean students, at an early age, the importance of the industry to the economic well-being of the region, with the expectation that they would pursue a career in tourism,” said Sylma Brown, director of CTO-USA and treasurer of the CTO Scholarship Foundation.
“She was a driving force behind the foundation, therefore, it is fitting that we should honour her memory and the work she did to develop a world-class tourism workforce in the region, by introducing this scholarship in her name.”
The CTO said the Bonita Morgan Memorial Scholarship is one of several new scholarships introduced this year in an enhanced and expanded programme, which includes scholarships of up to $5000 in public relations and communications; tourism education or human resources development; hotel, resort, or villa development, design and/or planning; and aviation or air transport technologies.
The CTO said that the deadline for submitting entries is Friday, April 19, this year.
