Having been a part of the IHCL (Indian Hotels Company Limited) for over 15 years, Sonu Koithara has been an integral part the culinary teams for several hotels in India and recently in Dubai with the opening of Taj Jumeirah Lakes Towers. He has big plans to put Taj Exotica Resort and Spa, The Palm, Dubai on the map.
Swiss-born Lionel Dousse, director of food and beverage at Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, The Palm, Dubai, is bringing 14 years of experience to this role and has previously worked in Djibouti, Ghana and Latvia, as well as the UAE. He specialises in creating dining concepts for pre-opening restaurants and bars.
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.
Deutsche Hospitality is expanding into the United Arab Emirates by joining forces with Al Hamra the leading lifestyle developer and investment company in Ras Al Khaimah to take on management of the Al Hamra Residences and Al Hamra Village Hotel. The resorts will use the Steigenberger Residences and MAXX by Deutsche Hospitality brand names in future. This expansion will enable Deutsche Hospitality to gain market entry to the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
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).
Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi has announced the opening of a new culinary experience, Talea, by acclaimed two-Michelin-starred chef Antonio Guida. It is Guida’s first restaurant outside of Italy.
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.
The island getaway marks the first IHG Hotels & Resorts in the emirate, and is launched during the Diamond Jubilee of the InterContinental Hotel & Resorts brand.
The Westin Abu Dhabi Golf Resort & Spa has a new hotel manager. Ksenia Novikova joins the golf course property in her first hotel manager position.