After several years of interruption, the Saint-Martin Tourism Awards made a comeback Thursday, January 26, 2017. The tourist office organized a gala evening, by invitation, which took place at the villa Les jardins de Bellevue .
With guest of honor, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, director of the Bahamas Tourist Office who recalled that the welcome of the inhabitants and the experience they provide to tourists is the most important. It is precisely in this sense that the awards went since the winners are mainly local personalities, who participated in making Saint-Martin the "Friendly Island".
FCCA Writing Contest Award (Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association) by Miss Saint-Martin / Saint-Barthélemy Anaëlle Hyppolite to a young student at the Collège Mont des Accords Jenifer Mourot, 13, who received a check for a text she had written. (More details on www.soualigapost.com)
• Tourism Special Awards.
Tamilia Luck
Youthwaves Band
Christophe Henocq
William Jordan Welch
Denise Shillingford Leclerc, for her work at La Samanna
• Tourism Authentic Awards
Félix Olivier Artsene, known as “Coconut Man”
Emelda renita Illidge, known as “Sweet Lady”
Arlette Bernadine Arnell Joe
Constance Gumbs Hanson
Vanon Hodge
Michel Jean-Pierre Hunt
• Tourism Excellence Awards
Samanna Belmond
• Lifetime Achievement award
Marcel Eugene Hodge
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