Niamh O’Connell has been named Vice President of Wellbeing at Jumeirah Group
Jumeirah Group has created a new vice president position, looking after wellbeing, group and corporate.
The Dubai hotel group has hired industry expert Niamh O'Connell for the task. It comes as the group promises a "renewed focus" on wellness, seeing it as a major demand from the luxury travellers of today.
O'Connell has primarily spent her near-two decade career across Asia. She began as a spa director with the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, going up to area spa director for Hyatt's greater China area two years later.
In 2010, she was named Hyatt's international corporate VP of spa, and later its director of spa operations and development. Prior to Jumeirah, she spent six years with Rosewood, first as group VP of guest experience and wellness, and from 2020 to 2022, as its group VP of wellness and brand experience.