The Bermuda Tourism Authority has hired Glenn Jones to a full-time position in charge of public and stakeholder relations.

Mr Jones, has been at the authority since September 2014 on a part-time basis and began his full-time position as director of public and stakeholder relations last week.

“We conducted an extensive recruitment effort for this new position and received applications from many qualified applicants,” said Karla Lacey, the BTA’s chief operations officer. “We believe our stakeholders will be pleased Glenn was the successful applicant because many have told us he has had a tremendous and positive impact in what was a limited role and a limited amount of time.

“We expect that positive impact will be further magnified as he joins us full time.”

In his new role, the Bermudian will be responsible for delivering information to groups with a direct link to tourism while gathering feedback from them. These groups include restaurateurs, retailers, Members of Parliament, hoteliers and labour unions.

“In the limited amount of time I’ve been on the job, I haven’t been able to reach all the stakeholder constituencies, but the ones I have reached have been completely welcoming and fully co-operative,” said Mr Jones, who has 15 years’ experience locally and internationally in media and communications strategy, encompassing tourism and public policy.

“I look forward to partnering with them and all the other stakeholders on growing Bermuda’s tourism economy.

“I’m blessed with the good fortune of having options at this point in my career and I’m inspired most by the work going on at the Tourism Authority because I see an improved tourism industry as having the kind of economic impact that improves the lives of many people in our community. I can’t think of any other area in our economy that holds as much promise for growth.”