Regional Workshop:
“Towards National Strategies for Sustainable Heritage
Tourism Development in the Caribbean”
Workshop Facilitators
Diana McIntyre-Pike || Dr. Michael Scantlebury
Dr. Michael Scantlebury
Rosen School of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, USA
Dr. Michael Scantlebury joined the faculty of the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in August 2005. Previously he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Applied Human Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and sessional lecturer at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Scantlebury received his doctorate from the University of Waterloo, in Recreation and Leisure Studies where his research focused on heritage tourism. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of West Indies Mona, Jamaica, West Indies, and has earned a Certificate in Tourism Studies from the University of Surrey England, UK. Dr. Scantlebury has worked in travel and tourism since 1985 as research officer, marketing manager, US Manager and Vice President Marketing and Sales for the Barbados Tourism Authority. He was a consultant and manager with Ernst & Young and Coopers & Lybrand (Caribbean) Consultants Inc. in their regional tourism consulting practices. He has extensive tourism consulting experience in the Caribbean and has also conducted consulting assignments in Ontario, Canada.
His research interest is in the areas community-enterprise relationships in heritage tourism, and barriers to heritage tourism development. Dr. Scantlebury is a member of the Travel and Tourism Research Association, the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators, The Caribbean Conservation Association, the Barbados National Trust and the United States National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Diana McIntyre-Pike
Countrystyle Community Tourism Network
Mrs. Diana McIntyre-Pike is the head of the Countrystyle Community Tourism Network which includes Countrystyle Community tours, Countrystyle Institute for Sustainable Tourism and Countrystyle Community Tourism Consultants, among other partners. She is the Community Tourism Consultant/Trainer for the Sustainable Communities Foundation through Tourism (SCF) and assisted them in developing and proposing the Jamaica Community Tourism Project which was funded by the Caribbean HRD Programme for Economic Competitiveness (CPEC- a CIDA funded project).
She is the President for the first chapter outside USA of the International Institute of Peace through tourism (IIPT) and due to her international recognition, inspired the International Institute for Peace through Tourism to create the IIPT Community Tourism Network which involves over 70 countries, she coordinates this network. She also owned and operated The Astra Country Inn & Restaurant in Mandeville, Manchester …the home base of her work.
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