MEETING PEOPLE
Adam
Armstrong
(pictured)
will join
Silversea
Cruises as
managing
director
Australia &
New Zealand
in August, following the resignation of
Amber Wilson. He is currently
associate vice president & managing
director Australia & New Zealand for
Royal Caribbean. Revolution360
Sydney has
appointed
Angela Ward
as the new
head of
events APAC.
Ward joined
Revolution360
in 2014 as
senior account manager and in her new
role will be responsible for running the
events and experiential teams for
Revolution360 across the Asia-Pacific
region with offices in Sydney, Melbourne,
Singapore and Jakarta. Langham
Hospitality
Group has
appointed
Stefan Leser
as chief
executive
officer. Based
in Hong
Kong, he will
oversee all aspects of the group’s global
portfolio of hotels, resorts and
residences. He was most recently at
Jumeirah International where he was
the group chief executive officer and a
member of the board of directors.
INVNT
Sydney has
appointed
Laura
Roberts as
managing
director, to
drive the
agency’s
growth and
development throughout the APAC
region. With decades of events
experience, Laura has worked all over
the world, across multiple sectors for a
wide range of multi-national brands. Philip Logan
is the new
general
manager
at Sofitel
Sydney
Wentworth.
He returns
to Australia
from London
Canary Wharf and brings over 30 years
of hotelier experience, 20 years of
which were with AccorHotels across
Europe and Asia. Perth
Convention
Bureau (PCB)
has appointed
Nicolle Davey
(pictured) as
executive
director
stakeholder
relations
replacing Tracey Cinavas-Prosser who
is moving on to a new role as CEO of
Experience Perth. Davey’s most recent
role prior to joining PCB in 2017 was with
the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Destination
NSW has
appointed
Pascal
Reiling, as
business
development
and
partnership
marketing
manager for Germany and France based
in Frankfurt. He brings seven years’
experience having held senior marketing
roles with Tourism Ireland, the National
Tourism Organisation of Serbia and
Reunion Island Tourist Board. Djabugay
descendant
Shirley
Hollingsworth
has been
appointed
as general
manager at
Tjapukai.
She joined
Tjapukai as a casual junior retail
assistant in 1997 and over the past two
decades has worked in all aspects of
the business. Minor Hotels
has appointed
Craig Hooley
as the new
chief
operating
officer of
Oaks Hotels
& Resorts
and AVANI
Hotels & Resorts (Australia and New
Zealand). Prior to joining Minor Hotels,
he held was general manager of the
Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney.
Crowne Plaza Queenstown has appointed Juan Gomez as
F&B manager. Joining InterContinental Hotels Group in 2012,
he has spent the last five years working in InterContinental
Wellington’s Lobby Lounge. Radisson Hotel Group has appointed Saurabh Prakash as
vice president, commercial, Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore,
he brings over 15-years of experience, mainly with Marriott
International. Prior to this role, he was with TSA Solutions.
ChristchurchNZ has appointed Loren Heaphy as general
manager of destination and attraction. She was most recently
special projects event development manager for Auckland
Tourism, Events and Economic Development. Grand Hyatt Melbourne has appointed Lana Matafonov as
its new PR and communications manager. She brings over
12 years’ experience working as both a journalist and PR
professional in Australia and overseas.
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