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Ambassador John Kenneth McKenzie Pringle CBE OJ (1926-2007) was an entrepreneur, founder of one of Jamaica's legendary hotels Round Hill in 1951, and Jamaica's first director of tourism serving between 1963 and 1967. Pringle also served as chairman of the Jamaica Tourist Board[1]. He served as the European Chairman of advertising agency DDB from 1967[2]. He later became a film and television producer and in the 1990s went back to his routes as a hotelier, helping Chris Blackwell develop his hotels in Jamaica, including Strawberry Hillin Jamaica and The Tides in South Beach, Florida[3]. In 2004 Jamaica made a set of stamps with Pringle and Round Hill.[4]





References

  1. ^ reporter, Ingrid Brown, Observer staff (2006-12-13). "Country's first tourism director John Pringle is dead - Jamaica Observer". www.jamaicaobserver.com. Retrieved 2024-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "John Pringle". The Telegraph. 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  3. ^ "John Pringle". The Telegraph. 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  4. ^ "John Pringle". The Telegraph. 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2024-07-06.