“Important Contributions” to St Kitts Tourism 

St Kitts is celebrating the “profitable tenure” of outgoing CEO Ellison “Tommy” Thompson, who helped spearhead a dramatic restoration for the island within the post-pandemic interval. 

Thompson performed what the St Kitts Tourism Authority referred to as an “integral position” in rising airlift and accessibility, together with serving to to safe the first-ever year-round nonstop flight on JetBlue from New York. 

That got here together with expanded airlift on carriers like United, Caribbean Airways, Air Canada and American Airways, amongst others. 

“The Board of Administrators extends its profound appreciation and gratitude to Mr. Thompson for his strategic imaginative and prescient and unwavering dedication to advancing the tourism sector of St. Kitts,” stated Mrs. Ermelin Sebastian-Duggins, Chair of the Board of Administrators. “Thompson’s management has actually enhanced the popularity of St. Kitts as a premier Caribbean vacation spot.”

Thompson additionally helmed the vacation spot’s new branding marketing campaign, “Enterprise Deeper,” which accentuated the island’s eco-tourism and sustainability choices. 

“It has been an honour and a privilege to deliver St. Kitts out of COVID protocols to a full restoration,” stated Ellison “Tommy” Thompson, “The island of St. Kitts is a particular place with such a vibrant neighborhood, and I’m assured that the longer term holds even larger success for this unbelievable vacation spot.”

Thompson is succeeded by incoming CEO Anne Kelly Fontenelle-Clarke, who formally took over on July 1.