Kai Winkler has been appointed as General Manager at Fairmont The Palm
Fairmont The Palm has appointed Kai Winkler as its general manager.
The German national and seasoned hotelier brings more than two decades of experience to the role.
Winkler holds an executive MBA in hospitality and tourism from NEOMA Business School in Paris and started his hospitality career in 1995 in Germany. He has since had years of international assignments in the fields of sales and marketing, rooms and F&B.
His first general manager assignment was in 2009 at the Hotel Palace Praha, member of The Leading Hotels of the World, Prague, Czech Republic.
In 2011, he joined Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich, Germany as hotel manager and a year later, became the general manager at Kempinski Hotel Barbaros Bay Bodrum, Turkey before relocating to China in 2015 as cluster general manager of two Kempinski Hotels in Dalian.
Winkler joins Fairmont The Palm from his most recent position as the general manager of Fairmont Quasar, Istanbul heading the pre-opening team in establishing a flagship Fairmont property in Turkey.
He will be taking over his new position from the resort's previous general manager, Mark Sawkins who has grown within the Accor brand as vice president of luxury brands within the region.