Tourism marketing partnership matchmaker | Sales Development Strategist | Curator of cultural storytelling

Matt Cooper is a tourism marketing and business development strategist with more than 25 years of marketing and sales experience, promoting the travel and tourism experience in the Caribbean, Latin American and the Southeast US. As former CMO of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, Matt shared vision and connectivity to create many strategic partnerships for the benefit of the Caribbean's hospitality industry, including bringing partnership support to Caribbean Travel Marketplace, and creating alliances with Mastercard, JetBlue, STR and many others, and played a key role in bringing the CHIEF conference to life.

He started Travel Culture Collab in 2019 to create strategic partnerships for hotels and destination marketing organizations, to amplify brand awareness and engage with new consumer audiences to win over more travelers.