Martin YkemaIn response to the continuous growth of the hotel group in the past few months, Vienna International Hotels & Resorts chose to strengthen its management board with the appointment of Martin Ykema as Chief Operating Officer on 1 September 2013. The Dutch native, a graduate of the Business School for Hospitality Management in The Hague, holds executive responsibility for hotel operations in Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Poland and is helping to reinforce the management team of CEO Dr. Andreas Karsten and CPOO Isabella Hren. He will also be responsible for matters related to sales & marketing, revenue management, technology and the environment. Martin Ykema can look back on more than 20 years of international management experience in the hotel business. In his last position, he was responsible for the expansion of Lindner Hotels. Before that, he managed various hotels in northern Poland, the Czech Republic and New York.