Appointment10 September 2018Alaa Selim
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Copthorne Kuwait City Hotel has appointed Alaa Selim as its new general manager.
He joins Copthorne Kuwait City Hotel with more than 20 years of experience in hotel operations and was most recently the general manager of Copthorne Al Jahra Hotel & Resort in Kuwait, also part of the Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Middle East & Africa brand.
In his new role, Selim will oversee the operations of the 169-room Copthorne Kuwait City Hotel and will lead his team in positioning it as the top preferred hotel in the city of Kuwait.
With his extensive knowledge and experience of the Kuwait hotel market, Selim will be a great asset to Copthorne Kuwait City Hotel, which will be shortly celebrating its first anniversary as a Millennium hotel in January 2019.
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Millennium Hotels and Resorts (MHR), established in the United States in 2000, is the North
American arm of
London-based Millennium and Copthorne Hotels plc (MLC). The MHR portfolio includes 19 holdings in
The Americas,
and the company operates properties including: Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York City;
Millennium UN Plaza
Hotel, New York City; Millennium Airport Hotel Buffalo, New York; Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los
Angeles;
Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, Chicago; Millennium Bostonian Hotel, Boston; Millennium Hotel,
Minneapolis;
Millennium Hotel, St.
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