Newly appointed Executive Director of the  Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association (AHTA)  Mrs. Gilda Gumbs-Samuel, and Mr. Delroy Lake, Vice President of the AHTA, will travel to Puerto Rico on Sunday, May 2nd, to attend the annual Society of Hotel Association Executives Conference, which will be held on the 3rd and 4th of May, at the San Juan Puerto Rico Sheraton Convention Canter Hotel. 

The Association Executives act reciprocally as resources for insight and expertise. They are also CHTA's link with the members of the hotel and tourism industry at a local level. The purpose of Leadership Conference is to develop the mutual partnership among the association executives - and with CHTA.  The two-day meeting provides a unique opportunity to meet and discuss the current trends and issues affecting the industry and the region.  

Further, in the tradition of Leadership Conference, the 2010 Newsworthy Awards for Excellence in Hotel Association Communication will be presented.  This award recognizes communication efforts to advance awareness about the Caribbean hotel and tourism industry by national hotel associations – on issues such as community-based tourism, tourism and the environment, sustainable tourism development, best practices, and social, economic and development issues, among others. The Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association was the recipient of this award in 2007. 

CSHAE is an independent organization for the professional development of national hotel association executives of all member countries of CHA.  Member countries include Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico: Cozumel, Mexico: Quintana Roo, Puerto Rico, St. Barthélemy, St. Croix, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Sint Maarten, St. Martin, St. Thomas/St. John, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, and Turks & Caicos.

The AHTA membership comprises over 160 hotels, villas and allied members.  It is Anguilla’s oldest and largest private Association and is wholly funded by membership subscriptions and fundraising.