Charmarie Maelge

Charmarie is the Founder Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership (RTP) in Sri Lanka and created and operationalised the National Sustainable Tourism Certification Scheme (NSTCS) for the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) in 2019. She is also a certified trainer and assessor in tourism vocational education and has trained over 600 youth to enter the tourism industry. Charmarie has worked as a Women’s Business Development Adviser and Gender Specialist for UNDP & USAID.

She has conducted comprehensive gender research and analysis that focused on existing gender dynamics within the tourism sector, in order to better understand the legal, cultural, and financial practices at the community, institutional, and national levels for the USAID Indo-Pacific Opportunity Program (IPOP Project) under Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) activity.