Patrick Imbardelli | You can't keep a good hotelier Down Under for long | timesonline.co.uk

Patrick Imbardelli will doubtless remember 2007 with mixed emotions. It was the year he was appointed to the main board of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the FTSE 100 hotel operator. It was also the year he was named Hotelier of the Year at the Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference. Alas, it was also the year he was forced to resign as chief executive of the group's Asia Pacific region after he was found to have claimed not one but...