Minister And BTB Board Welcomes New Director Of Tourism

The Belize Tourism Board is pleased to announce its new Director of Tourism, Ms. Seleni Matus.

Advisor for the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business’ (CELB) Meso-American Reef Tourism Initiative, Seleni Matus has more than five years of managerial experience in ecotourism and sustainable development. Her work experience includes project design and management, sustainable tourism strategy development, business planning for small and medium-size enterprises, marketing and promotion, fundraising, partnership development, and training and community capacity building. In her current capacity at Conservation International, Seleni provides technical support and oversight for implementation of CELB’s travel and leisure engagements in northern Meso-American.

Seleni also worked as Ecotourism Manager at Conservation International providing capacity-building and technical assistance to country programs in Latin America. Seleni has also worked at a leading conservation NGO in Belize, Programme for Belize, where she managed the organization's ecotourism operations and provided technical support to its headquarters and field stations. She was instrumental in the establishment of the Meso-American Ecotourism Alliance (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico), serving as a founding member and its first President. Ms. Matus is expected to commence her post on April 1^st 2010.