Mareba Marissia Scott

As head of CTO’s Sustainable Tourism Development Programme, Mareba Scott develops and delivers an annual program of activities which seeks to enhance the growth, quality, competitiveness and sustainability of the Caribbean tourism product.She is a Director on the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and Chairperson of the Project Advisory Committee for the Regional Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Tourism in the Caribbean Project.Scott delivers technical advice on management issues related to product development and sustainable tourism to Ministries of Tourism, Boards of Tourism in CTO’s 32 member countries, as well as, to other international, regional and private sector tourism and related entities.She is a tourism professional with 10 years experience, having worked and lived in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Barbados and her native Trinidad and Tobago.Prior to joining the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Scott worked as a Tourism Advisor in the Ministry of Tourism in Trinidad and Tobago where her portfolio included sustainable tourism development issues, policy, tourism technical cooperation agreements, tourism and travel related services negotiations and conducting evaluations on promotion and product development initiatives.She also has extensive training experience having worked with the University of the West Indies, Nassau (Bahamas) and Cave Hill (Barbados) campuses, and with the Trinidad and Tobago Hospitality and Tourism Institute, Tobago Campus.

Scott is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and holds a Master of Science Degree with Distinction in Tourism and Hospitality Management. She is also a graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in the Dominican Republic and is a Certified Project Management Professional.