Anne Tan is now group sales director of Park Hotel Group. She brings with her over 20 years of industry experience, having held global sales positions in other international hotel chains within the region. Her most recent role was vice president of marketing and sales for Meliá Hotels International.
Bennet Chang
Vive Hospitality has appointed Bennet Chang as general manager of the new Qliq Damansara in Selangor. Bennet has held various senior management positions with major international hotel chains and was most recently general manager at Swiss-Belhotel International Hotels and Resorts.
Jon Bourbaud
Apple Tree Group has named Jon Bourbaud its new area general manager for Laos. Bourbaud last headed Apple Tree Group’s Bagan Lodge in Myanmar and has over 10 years of experience in managing properties across South-east Asia.
I Nyoman Agus Suparta
Harper Kuta Bali Hotel has appointed I Nyoman Agus Suparta as its sales manager. Agus last held the position of assistant sales manager at a hotel in the Kuta Beach region and has more than six years of experience in the hospitality industry.
Mael Vastine
Mael Vastine has started his new role as general manager of OZO Wesley Hong Kong. Vastine built his career within the Accor Group and was resident manager of the ibis Hong Kong Central and Sheung Wan Hotel prior to joining ONYX Hospitality Group’s OZO Wesley Hong Kong.
Denise Chiang
Denise Chiang has moved from Hong Kong Airlines where she was head of corporate sales to her present position as director of business development – corporate at The Langham, Hong Kong. She possesses more than a decade of hospitality experience and was with luxury properties such as Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong and Conrad Hong Kong Hotel.
Angela Hassan
Angela Hassan has joined the new luxury property, Nanuku Resort & Spa, as sales manager. She brings with her more than 20 years of experience in business development and sales, and was last sales and marketing manager at the Naviti Resort on Fiji’s Coral Coast.
Christian Sack
Raffles Beijing has appointed Christian Sack general manager. Sack moves from Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Siem Reap where he was general manager since 2011.
Annelin Ni & Rosa Lei
Fairmont Peace Hotel has made Annelin Ni director of sales and Rosa Lei director of sales and marketing. Ni was last with Regal International East Asia Hotel as director of business development while Lei joins from JW Marriott Hotel Beijing where she was the director of marketing.
KSAE aims to help South Korean associations become ‘less traditional’
THE newly formed Korea Society of Association Executives (KSAE) seeks to advance the skills of industry practitioners through education and training, networking, and even advocacies, its secretary general Glynn Cho told TTGmice e-Weeky.
While South Korea has over 50,000 associations and organisations, there is no system in place yet for what KSAE wants to pioneer in, said Cho, who is also CEO of the Korea Association Management and Consulting, at the sidelines of the Philippine Council for the Advancement of Association Executives (PCAAE) Summit II.
KSAE has benchmarked the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) which Cho – the first Asian it certified as an association executive – represents in South Korea and the PCAAE which was formed last year.
With 90 individual members, KSAE wants to collaborate with ASAE and PCAAE to achieve common goals.
In his presentation at the PCAAE Summit II, Cho said associations and organisations in South Korea will in the future be open, transparent, collaborative, self-sufficient and sustainable.
Currently traditional in character, they are generally conservative with single super power and are dependent on the government.
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