On November 6, 2008 His Excellency was received in audience by the Queen upon his appointment in London. His Excellency Tony Arthur received an Honours B.A. in sociology from Trent in May of 1969 and a M.Sc. in tourism from the University of Surrey. He spent more than twenty years in tourism management with the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA), serving as travel development officer in Canada, director of marketing for North America in the USA and as the BTA’s chief executive officer. He taught tourism at the Barbados Hotel School and was a lecturer in tourism at the Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management of the University of the West Indies at Nassau, Bahamas.