The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co . cannot put its name on properties in France , Spain and the United Kingdom , all with long-standing The Ritz hotels . But the company ’ s Vice President of Europe Sandeep Walia is keen to get into Monte Carlo or Rome .
Sven Gevers , Bangkok-based regional managing director for Orient-Express Hotels , Resorts and Trains , heads six hotels with 336 keys . To complete his “ circuit ,” he wants Bangkok city , to feed the Eastern &
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Now that she is president of international for Fairmont Raffles Hotels International , Jennifer Fox is more or less commuting between Luxembourg and Zurich . In addition to continuing as president of Fairmont , she is responsible for all Raffles and Swissôtels and overall strategy for every area outside the Americas . Her main concern is to get presence for at least one of the three brands in Hong Kong , Kuala Lumpur , Seoul and Tokyo , and she wants |
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Oriental train , which ceremoniously plies between Bangkok and Woodlands , Singapore . He similarly wants a Myanmar resort to complement the company ’ s riverboats .
As it happens , Gecko Holdings Group has islands available in the Mergui Archipelago , some 800 islands off Myanmar ’ s southwest coast ( there is so far only one noteworthy development in the whole archipelago , the Myanmar Andaman Resort on MacLeod Island ). Sandra Hlaing , brought up in the archipelago and now Yangon-based partner of Gecko Holdings , suggests a perfect development could be on Kyun Philar island .
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more in her own home country , Australia , which so far only has Swissôtel Sydney .
Australia is also once again in the sights of The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels , parent of The Peninsula Group , Hong Kong . Director and COO Peter Borer , who had long wanted a property in London , now has that dream partly realized . The Peninsula London will , all being well , be at Hyde Park Corner , across Grosvenor Crescent from The Lanesborough . Now Borer wants to see The Peninsula name going into India , Sydney and into secondary cities in China to complement The Peninsula Beijing and The Peninsula Shanghai .
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