Caribbean Premier League Cricket Names Tourism Partner Manager

The Caribbean Premier League for the sport of cricket has named Deanna Weekes as its new tourism partner manager responsible for working with the league’s tourist board partners to create packages for traveling fans to visit all host countries for future tournaments.

“This is a really exciting opportunity to be involved in the biggest annual sporting event in the Caribbean,” Weekes said. “I am looking forward to working with all CPL’s tourism partners to build on the existing strong relationships to push CPL’s impact on the regional economies to another level.”

First started in 2013, the Caribbean Premier League is a franchise-based T20 format cricket tournament throughout the region. Jamaica Tallawahs are the current champions and the other competing teams are from Barbados, Guyana, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago.

“We are tremendously excited to be able to begin offering fans travel packages so they can watch CPL teams in six wonderful locations across the Caribbean,” said Pete Russell, chief executive officer for the CPL. “We are blessed with hugely passionate fans and by employing a dedicated tourism manager who will work with hotels, airlines and tourist boards, we will be making it easier than ever for fans to travel to watch CPL cricket. With the ICC T20 World Cup in the Caribbean in June this year, 2024 will be a bumper year for sports tourism and CPL look forward to continuing the momentum in August and September.”