Ranjit Phillipose has been appointed as Area Director, Middle East and General manager at Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, The Palm, Dubai

A Taj stalwart, Phillipose has been with the group for close to three decades. Starting as a duty manager for Taj Coromandel Hotel in 1993, he became room director for Taj Boston in 2005, later hotel manager of the same hotel until 2009.

Ranjit Phillipose

He would go on to become general manager of Taj Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad, later general manager of Taj Exotica Resort and Spa in the Maldives. In 2015 he came area director for Taj Goa and GM of Taj Exotica in Goa. From 2016 onwards, he worked in the Middle East, first as GM of Taj Dubai and later as an area director.

General Management Middle East United Arab Emirates Dubai

The Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) and its subsidiaries, collectively known as Taj Group, is one of Asia's largest and finest group of hotels. Incorporated by the founder of the Tata group, Jamsetji Tata, the company opened its first property, the Taj Mahal Palace, in Bombay in 1903. The Taj, a symbol of Indian hospitality, completed its centenary year in 2003.