City Cruises co-owner and chief executive Rita Beckwith was among a handful of people in travel and tourism who were honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
The London river cruise company boss received the OBE for services to the leisure and tourism industry and regeneration of London’s Docklands.
Tim Gardiner, vice chair of accessible tourism organisation Tourism for All, and Brian Potter, chairman of Norfolk’s Potters Leisure Resort, both
received an MBE for services to the tourism industry.
MBEs were also given to Bruce Hewison, chairman of the Alnwick Tourism Association in Northumberland, Christopher Mason, chairman of the Clyde Maritime Trust, and Leonard O’Hagan, chairman of Belfast Harbour Commissioners.
Meanwhile, Daniel Hawkes, avionics systems specialist for the Civil Aviation Authority, received an OBE for services to aviation safety.
