BSc degree in Tourism Management, Diplomas in Hotel Management, Tourism, Catering Operations, Marketing where she studied professionally in Jamaica the UK and Germany and. and a Certificate in Environmental Management from the George Washington University USA She is President of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) Caribbean, Coordinator of the IIPT International Community Tourism Network and President/Founder of the Countrystyle Community Tourism Network(CCTN). She was Chairman of the Caribbean Hotel Association’s Small Hotels Committee for over eight years and developed and implemented the CARIBBEAN SMALL HOTELS RETREAT. 

She has built the Villages as Businesses programme to empower member villages, through tour design, training, management and marketing support, to profit from community tourism, Countrystyle Community Tourism Network (CCTN) has partnered with the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus for a certified Community Tourism Hospitality Entrepreneurship 5 day training through the Countrystyle Academy for Community Tourism (ACT) which was first implemented in Barbados and now resulted in the creation of the Barbados Community Tourism Network Inc.