Mount Irvine Bay Re­sort in To­ba­go has won the LUXlife 2023 Re­sorts & Re­treats Award at the 30th World Trav­el Awards (WTA) & The Amer­i­c­as Gala Cer­e­mo­ny 2023 held at San­dals, St. Lu­cia.

The re­sort has been work­ing with Lévé Glob­al a strate­gic and busi­ness trans­for­ma­tion con­sul­tan­cy head­ed by Trinidad-born trav­el and tourism strate­gist Dr. Au­liana Poon.

Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Al­pha Lourde who was elat­ed by the achieve­ment said sus­tain­abil­i­ty is a core com­mit­ment for the Re­sort as it aligns with the com­pa­ny’s vi­sion for re­spon­si­ble growth.

“For us, sus­tain­abil­i­ty is not just an op­tion but a fun­da­men­tal as­pect of de­liv­er­ing ex­cep­tion­al hos­pi­tal­i­ty ex­pe­ri­ences. And we are glad to work close­ly with the Leve Glob­al Team to de­liv­er on this promise to our guests,” he said.

“It is not of­ten that you come across a part­ner that un­der­stands the tourism busi­ness, the tenets of re­spon­si­ble tourism and how this can be suc­cess­ful­ly im­ple­ment­ed and mar­ket­ed but that has walked that road al­so. This is what we got from Leve Glob­al… an in­ter­na­tion­al part­ner who un­der­stands the tourism busi­ness and the cru­cial role of sus­tain­abil­i­ty in cater­ing to the evolv­ing needs of trav­ellers, gen­er­at­ing prof­its, and safe­guard­ing Des­ti­na­tion To­ba­go.”

Two oth­er clients of Lévé Glob­al al­so walked away with ac­co­lades at WTA.

Fond Doux Eco Re­sort, sit­u­at­ed on a 250-year-old co­coa plan­ta­tion in St. Lu­cia, won the 2023 Lead­ing Caribbean Green Re­sort. While Do­mini­ca took the #1 is­land spot in the Caribbean and proud­ly stands as the #8 is­land in the world in this year’s ‘World’s Best Awards’ – an ho­n­our they are cel­e­brat­ing for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year.

Lévé Glob­al has part­nered with the Dis­cov­er Do­mini­ca Au­thor­i­ty (DDA) to de­vel­op Do­mini­ca’s Na­tion­al Tourism Pol­i­cy, the Tourism Mas­ter Plan, and the Au­thor­i­ty’s Cor­po­rate Strat­e­gy.

DDA Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Col­in Piper, ap­plaud­ed Lévé Glob­al adding: “the qual­i­ty of the work car­ried out was ex­cel­lent.”

Dr. Poon con­grat­u­lat­ed Mount Irvine Bay Re­ort, Found Doud Eco Re­sort and Do­mini­ca on their achieve­ments.

“Lévé Glob­al has been a pi­o­neer in re­spon­si­ble tourism, steadi­ly build­ing out its dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy, depth of hu­man re­source ca­pac­i­ty, and da­ta ca­pa­bil­i­ties over the decades,” said Dr. Poon.

“We are present­ly fo­cused on work­ing with small tourism en­ter­pris­es in rev­o­lu­tion­is­ing their dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing strate­gies that will dis­tin­guish the busi­ness­es from the tra­di­tion­al Caribbean nar­ra­tive of sun, sea, and sand. We are all about let­ting the world fall in love with the au­then­tic nat­ur­al vibe of the Caribbean, its peo­ples, and its sto­ries.”

WTA was es­tab­lished in 1993 to ac­knowl­edge, re­ward and cel­e­brate ex­cel­lence across all sec­tors of the tourism in­dus­try.