Regional Workshop:
“Towards National Strategies for Sustainable Heritage
Tourism Development in the Caribbean”
Workshop Facilitators
Mr. K. Brian Dorval || Dr. Michael Scantlebury || Professor Gladstone Yearwood
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.
Professor Gladstone Yearwood
Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imaginagion, UWI
Professor Gladstone Yearwood holds the PhD and Master of Arts degrees (Ohio University) and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (New York University, Institute of Film-Television). He was first appointed Assistant Professor at Ohio University in 1979 and since that time has taught at North Carolina Central University, Duke University, Carleton University (Canada); and served as Head of Department of Mass Communication at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. In 1987, he was the founding Tutor-Coordinator of the Barbados Community College Mass Communication programme, where he designed the curriculum for BCC’s first Associate Degree. At the University of Central Florida, Professor Yearwood held the rank of full Professor in the School of Film and Digital Media and earlier served as Director of the Zora Neale Hurston Institute and the African American Studies Programme. Professor Yearwood is the author of Black Cinema Aesthetics: Issues in Black Independent Filmmaking and Black Film as a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African American Aesthetic Tradition. He has also published monographs, numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on film and art criticism. His recent work includes the documentary films, Chattel House and Rum Shop, which won a NIFCA Award. Professor Yearwood has received several grants from federal, state and private foundations in the United States. He was the Director of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes on Black Film Studies on Black Film Studies for university teachers. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to China and was a Fellow at the East-West Centre for Technical Interchange at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Professor Yearwood has also received grants from Earthwatch Institute, the Japan Foundation and co-wrote a successful Ford Foundation grant.
Mr. K. Brian Dorval
Think First Serve Inc.
Consultant K. Brian Dorval will be the lead presenter for the workshops. Brian is the President & CEO of Think First Serve, Inc. which specializes in using creative-thinking, imagery and problem-solving methods to enhance performance. He has over 20 years experience helping individuals, teams and organizations significantly improve both personal and business results. He has delivered over 350 creative problem solving, management coaching and leadership development programs for Fortune 500 and Times 1000 companies in 17 countries. He has published over 50 articles, chapters and books on topics related to creative thinking, mental imagery and performance improvement and is now researching the use of change management strategies to improve performance. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Rhode Island College and a Masters of Science Degree in Creativity and Innovation from Buffalo State College.
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