Thelma Martínez is the new director of the Ministry of Foreign Relations convention center. She began her new role this July 2017 after 12 years as director of marketing for the National Hotel & Tourism Association (Asonahores), the country’s leading tourism organization. She brings to the position her extensive relations with hotel groups, tour operators, travel agents in the country and abroad.
Martínez is a graduate of the Cornell University and PUCMM hotel programs. She began her career in the sales department of the Dupont Plaza in Miami, Florida in 1987, returning the Dominican Republic in 1989 when she worked in sales with the Barceló hotel group in Punta Cana. She was promoted to commercial director for the Barceló Gran Hotel Lina in Santo Domingo. In 1997, she joined Amhsa Marina Hotels & Resorts where she was commercial director.
In 2005 she was hired by Asonahores to serve as marketing director of the organization to 2017. Martinez was responsible for several events such as DATE, the Asonahores Trade Show, and Vacation Planner and Welcome Punta Cana publications.
Her new challenge is to promote conventions, meetings, incentive groups and group gatherings in the city of Santo Domingo.
11 July 2017
