{"id":550,"date":"2012-02-23T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-02-23T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T12:46:54","slug":"atlantis-submarines-barbados-celebrates-25-years-in-a-gala-dinner-and-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/atlantis-submarines-barbados-celebrates-25-years-in-a-gala-dinner-and-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Submarines Barbados celebrates 25 years in a gala dinner and awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

www.Barbados.org congratulates Atlantis Submarines Barbados for 25 wonderful years of operation….<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hilton Hotel, Bridgetown, Barbados Feb 18th<\/sup> 2012<\/strong> \u2013 The management and staff of Atlantis Submarines Barbados were joined by top tourism officials including the Minister of Tourism Hon. Richard Sealy M.P and a high level contingent from the parent company Atlantis Submarines International including the President and founder Dennis Hurd and Mrs. Hurd, to celebrate its 25 year anniversary.\u00a0 Master of ceremonies Mr. Dennis Johnson, who has an association from Atlantis\u2019 early days as Guest Services manager at Paradise Beach hotel, guided the evening\u2019s proceedings. After a sumptuous dinner and an entertaining 25 year photo history of the company, the official portion of the evening started with a historical overview of the company by General Manager Roseanne Myers in which she outlined the contribution the Barbados operation and its employees played in the development of tourism in Barbados and the Atlantis worldwide expansion.\u00a0 Mrs. Myers went on to list the myriad of awards won over the years including Minister of Tourism awards from the 80\u2019s until today, Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association awards, and more recently a Barbados Chamber of Commerce award.\u00a0 International recognition came through the Green globe and Green certifications double award as the first attraction in the world to gain such and Hospitality Assured certification as the first Caribbean attraction to gain this UK based business excellence certification.\u00a0 She went on to laud the contribution of the staff whose dedication and focus on execution was key to their success.\u00a0 She noted that having completed over 43, 000 dives safely and taking over 1 million persons on submarines dives here in Barbados, there is much to celebrate.<\/p>\n

\"General

General manager Roseanne Myers<\/p><\/div>\n

The Minister of Tourism Honorable Richard Sealy delivered the feature address and heralded the fact that Atlantis Submarines Barbados was indeed already \u201cticking off \u201cachievements which fall under the important eight pillars of the industry outlined in the draft white paper on tourism.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He noted that Atlantis Submarines has been blazing a trail in terms of the sustainability, quality and product development pillars, and noted that in relation to the latter they had set Barbados apart as a destination with diversified and unique offerings.<\/p>\n

\"Minister

Minister of Tourism Honorable Richard Sealy<\/p><\/div>\n

The award ceremony was the highlight of the evening with industry partners receiving plaques of appreciation for their contribution to the development of Atlantis Submarines Barbados.\u00a0\u00a0 The awards were presented by the president of Atlantis Submarines Dennis Hurd, and the General Manager Roseanne Myers.\u00a0 The awards given to industry partners were as follows. the Ministry of Tourism\u2019s award received by the Minister of Tourism the honorable Richard Sealy M.P.; the award for the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association was received by President Colin Jordan; the Barbados Tourism Authority award was received by President David Rice and David Jean Marie the CEO acting received their award on behalf of the Barbados Port Inc.<\/p>\n

Five employees received awards and pins for their contribution and tenure for 15 to 20 years of service.\u00a0 Awardees were \u00a0Wayne Scott, Sales and\u00a0 Marketing rep. \u2013 19 years; \u00a0Hugh Forde, Submarine pilot\u2013 18 years; \u00a0Franz Taylor, submarine pilot \u2013 18 years; Peter Gollop Maintenance Supervisor \u00a0and pilot \u2013 18 years; Kerwin Bellamy, Sales and Marketing rep \u2013 16 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The premier awards were presented by the Minister of Tourism and the President of Atlantis Submarines International, to those persons with 25 years of service and they were heralded using their own words.\u00a0 \u00a0Master of Ceremonies Dennis Johnson <\/strong>read eloquently what each awardee wrote about what their 25 year tenure means to them.\u00a0 25 year awardees are: \u00a0Roseanne Myers \u2013 General MManager \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Robert Hinds \u2013 Operations Manager and pilot; Esther Forde- Accounting manager; Anthony Pitt \u2013 Operations Supervisor and pilot; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Daria Welch.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Office manager.\u00a0 T<\/strong>he first General of Atlantis Submarines Barbados Earlyn Shuffler was also recognised for his contribution and his tenure as a director over 25 years.<\/p>\n

\"Atlantis<\/p>\n

In a surprise twist at the end of the event the President of Atlantis Submarines was presented with a plaque of recognition by the Minister of Tourism of Barbados and the 25 year awardees for innovation, and leadership over 25 years.\u00a0 Mr. Dennis Hurd is the designer of the Atlantis submarine and the one whose entrepreneurial spirit has made the celebration possible.\u00a0 A standing ovation was received as the fact that over 14 million persons in the world have now experienced the underwater world in submarines designed by Mr. Hurd and his team more than 25 years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Atlantis

Anthony Pitt \u2013 Operations Supervisor; Robert Hinds \u2013 Operations Manager; Esther Forde Accounting Manager, Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy; Dennis Hurd \u2013President , founder and designer of Atlantis Submarines International, Roseanne Myers General manager; Daria Welch \u2013 Office Manager.<\/p><\/div>\n

For further information about Atlantis Submarines Barbados including the full history visit the website www.barbados.atlantissubmarines.com<\/a> or join our face book \u00a0\u00a0www.facebook.com\/AtlantisBarbados<\/a> page where full details and pictures will be posted.<\/p>\n

Email us at bdsres@atlantissubmarines.com<\/a>
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www.Barbados.org congratulates Atlantis Submarines Barbados for 25 wonderful years of operation…. Hilton Hotel, Bridgetown, Barbados Feb 18th 2012 \u2013 The management and staff of Atlantis Submarines Barbados were joined by top tourism officials including the Minister of Tourism Hon. Richard Sealy M.P and a high level contingent from the parent company Atlantis Submarines International including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85],"tags":[11,111,12,13,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}