María Florencia Arenaza

With 27 years of experience in the hotel industry, María Florencia Arenaza is the new General Manager of Los Sueños Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort. He began his career in his native Argentina in the hotel Caesar Park Buenos Aires where she played different roles. Later she continued her professional development as Sales Director of the Mexican group Posadas where she made several hotel openings, returned to Argentina in 2005 where she led the sales team of the Sheraton Salta hotel and three years later she participated in the opening of the Sheraton Mendoza, a leisure destination of the South American country.

In 2010, María Florencia returns to Mexico as Hotel Manager of the Westin Resort & Spa in Cancun, two years later she assumes her first position as General Manager at the Sheraton Colonial Golf & Spa Resort Uruguay and later takes the leadership of the Four Points of Montevideo. Her passion and dedication achieved outstanding results in the commitment of the associates of her properties, as well as in their financial returns.

María Florencia has a degree in Tourism and Hospitality from the Technological University of Mendoza, she also has technical training in hospitality and gastronomy from the Ateneo de Estudios Teciarios of Argentina and a Global Executive MBA from EAE Business School, Madrid. She speaks fluent English and Portuguese, and in her free time enjoys yoga and meditation, loves to travel and spend time with her nephews and her faithful cat Violeta.