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SELENI MATUS
Advisor, Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative

Education:
Viterbo College: B.S. Personnel Management
University of Nottingham, U.K: MA (With Distinction), Corporate Strategy and Governance

Advisor for CELB’s Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative, Seleni Matus has more than five years of managerial experience in ecotourism and sustainable development. Her work experience includes project design and management, sustainable tourism strategy development, business planning for small and medium-size enterprises, marketing and promotion, fundraising, partnership development, and training and community capacity building. In her current capacity, Seleni provides technical support and oversight for implementation of CELB’s travel and leisure engagements in northern Mesoamerica.

Previously, Seleni worked as Ecotourism Manager at CI providing capacity-building and technical assistance to country programs in Latin America. Seleni has also worked at a leading conservation NGO in Belize, Programme for Belize, where she managed the organization’s ecotourism operations and provided technical support to its headquarters and field stations. She was instrumental in the establishment of the Mesoamerican Ecotourism Alliance (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico), serving as a founding member and its first President.

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