Robert HerrRobert Herr has been appointed area general manager (AGM) for the Phoenicia and Le Vendôme InterContinental hotels in Beirut, Lebanon. Herr replaces previous AGM Georg Weinlaender, who has returned to his native Austria to pursue a travel trade consultancy opportunity. Weinlaender has worked in 15 countries on five continents, completing 27 years with Hilton and six years at Leading Hotels of the World, before joining IHG in January 2009. During his tenure, the Phoenicia traded amongst the top five InterContinental hotels globally. The new AGM, Herr, joined IHG in 1993 as a rooms division trainee and as a member of the Fast Track graduate development program. Since then he has taken on a number of operational roles at InterContinental Hotels in Hamburg, Paris, Leipzig, New York, Vienna, Prague leading up to his first general manager assignment in 2003 at the Crowne Plaza Hamburg.