July 28, 2015

Alastair McAlpine has been appointed as General Manager at Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake

After a near four-year stint as General Manager of the Four Seasons Resort Langkawi in Malaysia, Alastair McAlpine is trading the tropical island exoticism for some classical Chinese elegance as he is newly appointed General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake, a UNESCO-recognised region.Alastair graduated in Hotel Management from the Scottish Hotel School at Strathclyde University in 1993. He started his Four Seasons journey at the former Regent Hong Kong in 1996, first as a Management Trainee and then as Assistant Director of Food and Beverage. This was followed by four postings as Food and Beverage Director in the Maldives, Tokyo, Washington DC and New York. Alastair was the opening Resort Manager at Lanai, Hawaii from July 2005 to June 2008, before his first General Manager posting in the Maldives at Kuda Huraa. Alastair moved to the Seychelles as General Manager in November 2009, and then to Langkawi in late 2011. Hangzhou will be Alastair’s tenth Four Seasons property. Alastair met his Japanese wife Mitsuko, a dive-instructor, in the Maldives. Since their first introduction took place 15 metres (50 feet) below sea level on the house reef, their hand signals clearly evoked a positive response in each other. Alastair has remained a keen diver; he is also an enthusiastic golfer, although his nickname “McSlice” tells its own story. Alastair and Mitsuko’s daughter Kei, now seven, has been going to school in Kuala Lumpur, where she has been going far beyond hand signals, and learning Mandarin for the past four years.

Alastair McAlpine is an alumnus of University of Strathclyde Business School – Class of 2003.

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