Pawar, who took a transfer from Accor's Fairmont The Palm, will bring 16 years of experience in the luxury hospitality field and will be will be responsible for overseeing day to day engineering operations, planned maintenance and strategic improvements of Raffles Dubai as well as the new opening of Sofitel Wafi.
The Oberoi, Dubai has appointed Dharmendra Sharma as the new director of sales and marketing. Sharma previously worked at the hotel from 2013 to 2016.
Prior to joining Swissôtel Al Ghurair, Karakus worked with Persona Human Resources as a general manager and partner. Karakus built the entire operational flow of integrating financial and operational software for luxury and upper-class brands including Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Wyndham Worldwide and St. Regis Hotels & Resorts.Karakus holds a Masters in Business Administration from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. He additionally completed Bachelor of Arts from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey specialising in Tourism and Hotel Management. - TradeArabia News ServiceKarakus brings with him over 10 years of experience in rooms operations in Turkey. Gokce started his journey with Swissôtel brand in 2008 in Swissôtel Buyuk Efes Izmir, Turkey as a receptionist. With his tremendous effort and dedication, he climbed the ladder and worked in various positions as front office supervisor, assistant front office manager and front office manager. Gokce subsequently moved and pioneered the pre-opening operations of Fairmont Quasar Istanbul in 2016 as director of rooms and executive committee member.
Prior to this appointment, Jocelyn was the Resident Director of Finance at Hyatt Regency Dubai & Galleria.
Borja Molina has been appointed as the assistant director of food and beverage for the Shangri-La Hotel and Traders Hotel in Abu Dhabi.
Hilton's Hampton by Hilton, the global value hotel brand known for its commitment to authentic service, and wasl Asset Management Group today celebrated the hotel brand's Middle East debut with the opening of Hampton by Hilton Dubai Airport.
In the recent Middle East hotel construction pipeline report by analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE), the region continues to show rapid pipeline expansion in the second quarter of 2018 with the highest counts since 2007 when LE first began recording. The total pipeline stands at 603 projects/175,288 rooms, an all-time high. These numbers show a lofty 119% increase in projects and 125% increase in rooms since the region's low in the fourth quarter of 2013 when the total pipeline bottomed at 275 projects/77,772 rooms. Projects presently under construction are at 355 projects/113,635 rooms and are at an all-time high. Projects scheduled to start construction in the next 12 months are at 127 projects/33,158 rooms, and projects in early planning are at 121 projects/28,495 rooms, both at their highest levels since 2007.In the first half of 2018, the Middle East had 43 new hotels open while another 51 hotels are forecasted to open in the second half, bringing the total number of expected new hotel openings to 94 by year end. Analysts at LE forecast explosive growth for new hotel openings in the coming years with 119 expected to open in 2019 and a whopping 156 in 2020. Countries with the largest number of projects in the construction pipeline are the United Arab Emirates with 217 projects/61,375 rooms and Saudi Arabia, with 208 projects/74,962 rooms. Following distantly are Qatar with 58 projects/13,733 rooms and Egypt with 42 projects/9,923 rooms. The most swiftly growing emirate construction pipeline is in Dubai with 163 projects/47,783 rooms. The other notable emirate is Abu Dhabi with 21 projects/5,647 rooms. Regions and cities having the largest hotel construction pipelines are located within Saudi Arabia, where the Provincial Region has 59 projects/11,467 rooms, and Riyadh has 57 projects/10,735 rooms. Jeddah is recording their highest counts since 2007 with 56 projects/11,027 rooms while Makkah has 36 projects/41,733 rooms, also a record high.Companies with the largest construction pipelines in the Middle East are Marriott International with 96 projects/22,066 rooms, Hilton Worldwide with 91 projects/25,341 rooms, and AccorHotels with 81 projects/23,512 rooms. Marriott International is showing an all-time high project count while Hilton Worldwide is on their third quarter in a row of overall record highs for both projects and guest room counts. The leading pipeline brands for these companies are Marriott's Courtyard with 21 projects/4,476 rooms, and Residence Inn with 16 projects/1,877 rooms; Hilton's full-service Hilton Hotel & Resort with 26 projects/9,736 rooms, and DoubleTree by Hilton with 26 projects/6,113 rooms; and AccorHotels' Novotel with 14 projects/5,165 rooms, and Adagio City Aparthotel with 14 projects/2,711 rooms. All of these leading pipeline brands, with the exception of Hilton's full-service Hotel and Resort, are at their record highs.
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The Portuguese national recently lead the sales and marketing team for IHG in Lisbon Portugal as cluster director of sales and marketing. He also held a variety of positions including director of sales & marketing at The Westin Langkawi as well as at Le Meridien Oran Hotel & Convention Centre.
Tuturman joins Ajman Hotel from her most recent role as director of sales at the Kempinski Hotel Muscat, Oman. She got a foothold in the hospitality industry when she began her career at the Ramada Hotel Ajman and Kempinski Hotel Ajman in the UAE.
The H Dubai Hotel has appointed Mohamed Mattar as the new food & beverage manager.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek, has appointed Jan Hanak as the hotel's new general manager.
Preferred Hotels & Resorts appoints Nicolas Villemin as regional director for Middle East & North Africa. In his new role, Villemin will bring 20 years of industry experience. As regional director, he will be based in Dubai and will oversee the efforts to maintain the retention and expansion of the brand's Middle Eastern and North African portfolio. Preffered Hotels' executive vice president of South Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Australasia Saurabh Rai said Villemin's role will also include looking into gap markets in the region for the company. Villemin has worked in the Middle East for more than 10 years and has previously served in senior executive positions and consultancy roles for luxury hotel brands such as Viceroy, Shangri-La and Habtoor Hospitality. Originally from Switzerland, Villemin is fluent in English, French and Portuguese.
Caroline Thissen is Senior Area Director Sales & Revenue Optimization, Radisson Hotel Group and has responsibility for driving the commercial performance and revenue optimization of over 100 hotels across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
DAMAC Properties has signed a landmark agreement with Radisson Hotel Group (RHG) to develop and launch the 'Radisson Hotel, Dubai DAMAC Hills', its first Radisson-branded property worldwide located on a golf course, the Trump International Golf Club Dubai at DAMAC Hills. The planned 481-key hotel property comprises of one and two-bedroom units, and offers investors an opportunity to purchase units operated by the Radisson Hotel Group, with strong returns of up to six percent guaranteed for the first three years on their property investment.
STR's preliminary July 2018 data for Dubai, United Arab Emirates, indicates performance consistent with strong growth in both supply and demand. Based on daily data from July, Dubai reported the following in year-over-year comparisons:
Nelson joins Fairmont Dubai from his most recent role as Cluster Revenue Manager at the IHG Festival City in Dubai, a position he held since 2015. Whilst in this role, Nelson has had a number of significant achievements, including obtaining the highest Revenue Generation Index (RGI) since the opening of the cluster properties. Prior to this role, he held the Cluster Revenue Manager's position overseeing 7 AccorHotels' properties in Dubai and in 2012 worked as well for AccorHotels' regional office in Marseille, France.
A Croatian national, Zlatko Gersak has an extensive culinary background with more than 23 years' experience in the hospitality industry. His last assignment was an Executive Sous-Chef in Al Ain Rotana where he was in charge of 55 culinary personnel and overlooking seven food & beverage outlets. Over the years he has taken various positions with luxury cruise liner as well as 5-star brands such as Hilton, Le Meridien, Kempinski and recently Rotana properties.
A Canadian/Jordanian national, his hospitality career now spans more than 25 years; his last position was Human Resources Director with Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Dead Sea, Jordan.Prior to his last assignment, he worked with brands such as Kempinski, Movenpick, Taj Palace, and Radisson. He holds post graduate certificate in Human Resources Management in addition to his Master's Degree in Political Science.In this role, Sbeitani will partner with other department heads and he will lead and develop the HR strategy, programmes and oversee all aspects of hotel's human resources operations for almost 260 employees for Ajman Hotel.
Central Hotels is pleased to announce the appointment of Shady Dawad as General Manager of Canal Central Hotel in Business Bay, Dubai. Shady is an experienced hotelier with over 10 years spent in the UAE working with a number of prestigious brands.