Vipasiri Napawongdee has been named Cluster Director of Marketing Communications at Meliá Koh Samui & Meliá Chiang Mai

Thailand's first two Meliá Hotels International properties have appointed a director who brings more than two decades of hospitality experience to the table.

Vipasiri Napawongdee

Thai national Vipasiri Napawongdee has been named cluster director of marketing communications for Meliá Koh Samui and Meliá Chiang Mai.

Vipasiri's appointment follows an eight-year stint as director of marketing communications at The Okura Prestige Bangkok, where she implemented impressive communications efforts and organised an array of charitable initiatives. Previously, she was director of marketing communications at Anantara Bangkok Riverside Resort & Spa and InterContinental Samui Baan Taling Ngam Resort and director of PR and marketing communications at InVision Hospitality.

Vipasiri started her career in hospitality communications as a PR coordinator for the Royal Garden Resorts Group in Thailand before becoming a PR executive at Chiva-Som International Health Resort and the PR manager at JW Marriott Bangkok.

Sales & Marketing Asia Pacific Thailand Chiang Mai

Founded in 1956 in Mallorca (Spain), Meliá Hotels International operates more than 380 hotels (portfolio and pipeline) throughout more than 40 countries, under the brands Gran Meliá Hotels & Resorts, Paradisus by Meliá, ME by Meliá, Meliá Hotels & Resorts, The Meliá Collection, INNSiDE by Meliá, Sol by Meliá and Falcon’s Resorts by Meliá, plus a wide portfolio of affiliated hotels under the “Affiliated by Meliá” network.