HOTELS spoke with Steve Joyce, Choice Hotels International president and CEO.
To succeed, there are several things you should always do, but perhaps more importantly, there are also things you should avoid at all costs.
Two decades since he took on international operators with the launch of the first UAE-based hotel company, Rotana president and CEO Selim El Zyr is still taking risks. He reveals the group’s expansion plans in some of the region’s most volatile markets, but says Rotana is in safe hands of the man he has earmarked to one day continue his legacy.
He had wanted to become a motorsports racer but after nearly four decades in the hotel business, Hilton Worldwide area president - Middle East and Africa Rudi Jagersbacher’s career shows no signs of slowing as the group doubles its regional portfolio.
“I was fortunate to live my dream. I always wanted to become an hotelier and, looking back, I met inspiring people, negotiated exciting deals, and always enjoyed working in the service industry.”
Here Breaking Travel News sits down with Sarah Friedrich, sales manager leisure, A-ROSA Finest Hideaway Resorts, to see what the victories mean for the brand.
Lionel Chatard, general manager at Middlethorpe Hall which last week won the Best Service award in LateRooms.
Even in the competitive coastal California market, Pacifica Hotel Co. has found plenty of ways to shine.
When Abid Butt took over as CEO of Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts, Singapore, about a month ago, his challenges included guiding the brand through an aggressive growth strategy — particularly in China — as well as keeping Banyan Tree relevant in its current markets. Fortunately, Butt is well prepared for the job.
Undeterred by Europe’s continued economic troubles, the London-based Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) is bullish about its membership’s revenue growth in 2012.
Just four months after being appointed chief executive of mid-market hotel group De Vere Village, Robert Cook is making his mark with a relaunch of the brand. He tells Journalist why there is so much to shout about the mid-market group
Wyndham Worldwide Corp., Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, has greatly expanded its hotel portfolio in Asia Pacific to about 500 properties from just 50 four years ago.
Robert Cook was born and raised in a hotel in Aberdeen, Scotland, and used that as a springboard to leadership roles at a list of hotels — primarily in the United Kingdom — most recently as chief executive of Malmaison and Hotel du Vin. In mid-January Cook, 46, became CEO of Warrington, U.K.-based De Vere Village Hotels, which currently boasts 26 U.K. hotels owned and operated by De Vere Group.
Skyport"s Salina Patel interviews Paul Davies, general manager of the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel and Ron Vos, general manager at London Heathrow Marriott Hotel, who first met in 1994 when they worked at the airport"s Renaissance before their careers took them on separate journeys.
Dolce Hotels and Resorts, Rockleigh, New Jersey, continues to expand throughout the U.S. and Europe with new hotels under development in Vittel, France, and Velas, Portugal. In early 2013, the upscale conference hotel-focused management company with 24 hotels operating today will open The Alexander in Indianapolis, which will anchor the US$155 million CityWay project.
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