With over 15 years of experience, Dorsai Khaghani has led a number of successful launches of some of Dubai's biggest and most successful hotel brands. She has previously served as a VIP sales executive for Atlantis Dubai, later moving up to manager of international sales at the famous Dubai hotel.
Originally from Hungary, Greg Kocsis is an experienced hotel manager with international experience in the luxury market, having previously worked in Beverly Hills, Miami, Barbados, London, Oman and Maldives for leading hotel brands over the course of 18 years.
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.
Fairmont The Palm Dubai has announced a top-level appointment within its F&B department. Dinesh Pitigalage has stepped up to the plate as director of F&B at the Palm Jumeirah resort.
Nikhil Satwani has been made EAM sales and marketing at Hyatt Regency Dubai Creek Heights. In his new role, he will head up sales, marketing, revenue and events teams, aligning all their activities with the overarching strategies of the hotel business.
The Grand Millennium Business Bay hotel has brought in a new director of marketing and communications. Anu Van Der Sande joins the team from Media One Hotel in Dubai where she was head of marketing and communications.
Media One Hotel, the stylish lifestyle hotel in the heart of Dubai Media City is a new customer of dailypoint™, the top Data Management and CRM platform for demanding individual hotels and hotel groups.
The former chef de cuisine at Dubai's Bussola has moved to Certo at Radisson Blu, Dubai Media City in the same position.
Fairmont Dubai has appointed Nawaf Hassan as director of operations. He steps into the luxury hotel group with 20 years of experience behind him. At Fairmont Dubai, the Jordanian will be responsible for leading the team to ensure full compliance to operating controls, SOPs, policies, procedures and service standards. Hassan will also focus on the effective implementation and delivery of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Core Standards at all times.
Today Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, announced that Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai has selected its platform to gain insights into Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) business trends. The iconic Dubai hotel is looking to Knowland to provide its sales team with the leverage it needs to be more productive in uncovering meetings and events business as the segment re-emerges.
Indian Hotels Company's (IHCL) iconic brand, Taj, today announces the opening of Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, The Palm in Dubai. Nestled between the Arabian Sea and the city skyline, the luxury beachfront resort is located in the heart of Palm Jumeirah. This is the third Taj branded hotel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Ossiano at Atlantis, the Palm, has launched a new dining chapter in March helmed by chef Gregoire Berger. Widely regarded as one of the most creative and innovative chefs in the UAE, Berger departed the seafood restaurant in January 2021, only to return a year later. Ossiano's new menu, available from March to summer 2022, will focus on Berger's memories of travel and childhood, starting off in the oceans of Brittany and moving through several coastal cities across the world.
Radisson Hotel Group is proud to announce the appointment of Joseph Chalfoun as Area Restaurants & Bars Director, Middle East & Africa, based in their Area Support Office in Dubai.Joseph will lead the company-wide Food and Beverage Transformation across the Middle East & Africa (MEA) to drive greater value for its guest, partners, and owners. In this new role, Joseph will be responsible for the conceptualization and pre-opening of Restaurants & Bars within Radisson Hotel Group in the Middle East & Africa as well as implementing initiatives to drive profit, control standards and establish brand recognition for all new concepts.
The next world's tallest hotel is opening in Dubai in 2024. The Ciel hotel will reach 365 metres high, beating Dubai's former record holder Gevora Hotel by nine metres. The Ciel hotel is now more than halfway built in terms of its construction, with 52 out of 82 floors completed.
Burhani has been promoted to associate director of sales, leading the MICE segment of the hotel. Both hoteliers have had a similar trajectory at Grand Hyatt Dubai.
With more than 15 years of experience in hospitality sales, Sah has been promoted to director of sales. Before joining the property as assistant director of sales in 2019, he was the cluster ADOS of Carlton Group of Hotels in Dubai. He also worked as cluster senior sales manager for Ramada Plaza JBR and Ramada Hotel & Suites by Wyndham Sharjah.
Varel joined Ramada Hotel & Suites by Wyndham Dubai in 2016 as front office manager. He was later promoted as rooms division manager in 2018, and now assumes the role of director of operations as a result of his excellent track record over the past six years at the property. He has more than 20 years of hospitality experience, and his former hotel affiliations include Grosvenor House Dubai and Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort & Spa, to name a few.
Conrad Dubai has appointed Michael Schmitt as general manager. He joins from Waldorf Astoria Chengdu in China.
Anantara has opened the first luxury resort on Dubai's World Islands archipelago. Located in the Arabian Gulf, approximately four kilometres off the coast of Dubai, the new island resort is the first hotel in the South American continent of the development and offers guests a new luxury destination in Dubai and a unique perspective on the city.
A former chef submariner in the British Royal Navy has dived head first into his first job in the Middle East. Nathan Noon is the new executive chef for Radisson Blu Hotel Dubai Media City, his first role outside of the UK.