Travel Industry Remembers Gordon âButchâ Stewart
Photo: Sandals Resorts International.
The travel industry is remembering Sandals founder Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart as a pioneer, innovator, visionary, and overall great man after his passing on Monday evening at the age of 79.
Stewart was the founder of Sandals Resorts, the leading hotel chain in the Caribbean, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International.
Donna Flanigan, travel consultant and group consultant for Donna Flanigan’s Travel by TPI, shared her memory of Stewart with Travel Market Report.
“Going into 43 years in this industry and having had the pleasure of meeting this great man years ago,” she said. “He had the biggest heart and made the name of Sandals a worldwide and very respected resort chain. This is such a loss to our already hurting travel industry.”