{"id":126,"date":"2019-10-12T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T08:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-10-12T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T08:58:22","slug":"diana-mcintyre-pyke-receives-global-tourism-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/diana-mcintyre-pyke-receives-global-tourism-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana McIntyre-Pyke Receives Global Tourism Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Diana-McIntyre-Pyke-Receives-Global-Tourism-Award.jpg?resize=800%2C533\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Diana-McIntyre-Pyke-Receives-Global-Tourism-Award.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Diana-McIntyre-Pyke-Receives-Global-Tourism-Award.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Diana-McIntyre-Pyke-Receives-Global-Tourism-Award.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Jamaica Tourist Board\u00a0<\/strong>is congratulating\u00a0<strong>Diana McIntyre-Pyke<\/strong>\u00a0on her receiving the\u00a0<strong>Global Tourism Award<\/strong>\u00a0by the\u00a0<strong>Wheatle Peart Global Branding Organization.<\/strong>\u00a0She is the President\/Founder of the\u00a0<strong>Countrystyle Villages as Businesses Programme<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>President of the<strong>\u00a0International Institute of Peace through Tourism (IIPT) Caribbean<\/strong>\u00a0and was honored with the award in\u00a0<strong>Chicago<\/strong>\u00a0on August 22, 2018 at the\u00a0<strong>Ritz-Carlton Hotel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre-Pike, in her remarks, emphasized education, training of communities in entrepreneurship and personal development to prepare the succeeding generation for the business world. She is involved with travel business training, business development and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre-Pike has been involved in the tourism industry for more than forty years. She, according to the Jamaica Tourist Board, helped rejuvenate communities by assisting funding support.<\/p>\n<p>The company says her vision came from three principles: act locally, establish independence and develop human resources. This work is designed to enable communities to showcase their natural culture, talents and ultimate potential for the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaica Tourist Board was founded in 1955 in Jamaica\u2019s national tourism agency in the capital city of\u00a0<strong>Kingston.<\/strong>\u00a0There are offices in\u00a0<strong>Montego Bay, Miami, Toronto\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>London.<\/strong>\u00a0Representative offices are situated in\u00a0<strong>Berlin, Barcelona, Rome, Amsterdam\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Mumbai.<\/strong>\u00a0The island was ranked by\u00a0<strong>TripAdvisor\u00a0<\/strong>as the #1 Caribbean Destination and #14 Best Destination in World in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The\u00a0Jamaica Tourist Board\u00a0is congratulating\u00a0Diana McIntyre-Pyke\u00a0on her receiving the\u00a0Global Tourism Award\u00a0by the\u00a0Wheatle Peart Global Branding Organization.\u00a0She is the President\/Founder of the\u00a0Countrystyle Villages as Businesses Programme\u00a0and\u00a0President of the\u00a0International Institute of Peace through Tourism (IIPT) Caribbean\u00a0and was honored <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/diana-mcintyre-pyke-receives-global-tourism-award\/\" title=\"Diana McIntyre-Pyke Receives Global Tourism Award\">&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Diana-McIntyre-Pyke-Receives-Global-Tourism-Award.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitcommunities.com\/jamaica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}