Alban Dutempleis

Swiss-Belhotel International has promoted Alban Dutemple to the role of cluster general manager for two properties — Swiss-Belhotel Seef Bahrain and Swiss-Belsuites Admiral Juffair.

Prior to this, Dutemple was the general manager for Swiss-Belhotel Seef Bahrain since June 2018. Alban is an accomplished professional with a strong track record in the hospitality industry. Being the general manager for Swiss-Belhotel Seef Bahrain, he has demonstrated extraordinary leadership skills, team spirit and dedication in managing the property efficiently and improving its performance year on year. Dutemple is a seasoned hotelier with over three and a half decades of experience in the industry with some of the world's leading hospitality brands. Out of this, his longest stint was with the Accor Group where he spent nearly 19 years serving various hotels in different capacities. A French national, he entered the hospitality industry as chef de partie at a Michelin star restaurant in France in 1978 and rose quickly in his career. He moved to Mexico in 1993 joining the Hotel Nikko in Mexico City as executive chef.In 1997, Alban took up the role of the executive chef at the Sheraton Maria Isabel in Mexico City. He moved to Brazil in 1999 as the food and beverage director of Sheraton Rio De Janeiro. In 2001 Alban returned to Paris with the position of food and beverage director of Sofitel Paris Porte De Sevres.In 2004, Dutemple took up his first role in the Middle East moving to Dubai as resident manager of Sofitel City Centre Hotel & Residence.In 2009 he went back to Brazil as the general manager of Sofitel Rio De Janeiro Copacabana. After three years he returned back to his home country in 2012 as VP F&B for Pullman Europe & Worldwide strategy based in Paris. Alban left the Accor Group in 2014 to join as general manager at Leylaty Catering and Restaurants Group in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where he stayed until December 2017.