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Augsburg. Stephanie Linnartz has quit her job as President of Marriott to join a sporting goods company. At the German Lindner Hotels, Otto Lindner has resigned from the supervisory board. Peter Wenzel takes over the baton as director at the Lindner Congress Hotel Düsseldorf. At Novum headquarters, there is a new IT manager and new HR manager. The Amano Group makes four new appointments to its management team. At Flemings Hotel, Roland Szeremlei becomes the new Cluster Head in Frankfurt. Benjamin Jacobi joins the management of TUI Deutschland in 2023.

Augsburg. IHG has a new Chief Financial Officer. After one year, Claudia Müller is relinquishing her tourism post in the federal government. Sandra Epper has moved to Wellem Düsseldorf. The International Society of Hospitality Consultants has 16 new members and a new leadership. And the HRS subsidiary Destination Solutions gets several new heads in management.

Augsburg. Numa brings two more tech and finance experts onto the management board. Christoph Hager joins Westmont Hospitality from Edyn. Sabine Schrempp joins Koncept Hotels. Living Hotels created the position of training manager for the first time. And Andreas Triebsch remains in his new GM position in Hanover.

Wiesbaden. The Four Seasons Resort and Residences in Qatar has a new general manager, while in Dubai Giovanni Beretta is the new GM at the Burj al Arab, among others, and Jumeirah has also recast Marsa Al Arab. Carmen Mauthner has moved to the Baltic States for Kempinski, and in the German Travel Association Peter Wittmann from TUI now completes the board. Michael Rabe has handed over the baton after 17 years as BTW Secretary General.

Wiesbaden. Italian Bluserena Group welcomes a new CEO, as well as Fosun Tourism Group. Laurent Gardinier and Susanne Gräfin von Moltke take the helm at Relais & Châteaux. Limehome appoints two new VPs. Carl Artmann has taken over a new position at Arcotel Hotels. Marcus Scholz has changed hotels in Baden-Baden and Ervin Engi changes to Achat Hotels. Swiss Gabriel Urban will open the first Adina in Switzerland. And Sweelin Heuss becomes the Sustainability & ESG Team Leader at JLL.

Augsburg. Accor has found a CEO for the luxury brands Raffles & Orient Express, who will be based in New York in the future. Kempinski is letting GMs Oliver Kuhn and Kai Behrens move on to the Seychelles and Frankfurt. There are new CFOs at Hirmer Hospitality in Munich and at the luxury hotel The Fontenay Hamburg. Penta hired its first Culture Manager. Oliver Steding remains in Bremen, but is new as GM at the Best Western Hotel zur Post. And at the Lausanne Hotel Management School, Prof. Markus Venzin has started and made the first decisions: in the staff as well as in the students' dress code.

Wiesbaden. Deutsche Hospitality says goodbye to Chief Developer Marie-Noële Schwartzmann. With Thérèse Cedercreutz, Scandic gets a new CCO. Dieter Schenk becomes Head of Business Development at Titanic Hotels and Yavuz Yatgin new GM at Titanic Chaussee Berlin. Kerstin Königer is now responsible for procurement at GSH and René Detzen becomes hotel manager at Kempinski Munich. Lisa Weddig will leave Austria Marketing and at BNP Paribas Real Estate Victor Neye, Jan Schildmeier and Andreas Völker take up new or expanded positions.

Wiesbaden. Sandro Mazza now manages the Kempinski Amman, Michael Klinger is Head of Operations at Achat Hotels. Daniel Kosin takes over the Intercity Hotel Pre-Opening in Heidelberg. Katharina Fraissl became Cluster Manager for Leonardo Hotels in Austria and Jon Critchley joined HVS Hodges Ward Elliott as Director.

Wiesbaden. IHG is looking for a new CFO after the departure of Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson. Nikolai Bloyd now heads the resort Das Achental. Leonie Neberich became General Manager of Ameron Zurich and Tamara Henderson Hotel Manager at Ameron Davos. Stephan Sporer has taken over the management of the Atlantic Hotel Heidelberg. Prinz von Hessen reports the new appointments of Anna Deiko and Eva-Louise Gerling. Accor announces the appointment of the Carte Blanched team and TUI the new structure of its board.

Augsburg. Four Seasons is counting on Alejandro Reynal as its new CEO; he comes from Apple Leisure Group/Hyatt. Berlin-based HR Group has recalled the two Managing Directors of the recently acquired Success Hotels with immediate effect. Nobert Fiebig remains President of the German Travel Association after the new board elections.

Augsburg. Leonardo Hotels Central Europe wins Molly Katz as new CFO. The Swiss Diamnond Group welcomes Maurizio Cennamo as its new CCO. Achat Hotels has a new Head of Sales in Frank Jacobs. André Lohmeyer is the new Hotel Director at Elbe Resort Alte Ölmühle Wittenberge. BNP Paribas Real Estate announces two appointments at international level: Argie Taylor and Patrick Delcol. And HOTREC elects Alexandros Vassilikos as its new President.

Augsburg. The Gorgeous Smiling Hotels are now managed by a trio. The Ringhotels also get support in the executive board with Petra Weindl. Johannes Lehberger takes over the management of the luxury resort Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel as of now. Rosewood Hotels appointed Friedrich von Schönburg and Roland Duerr as Managing Directors for their hotels in Vienna and Munich. Also under new leadership are the Jaz in the City Vienna, Hotel Atlantic Hamburg and the Abacco by Rilano Korntal-Münchingen.

Augsburg. The Kempinski Hotel Soma Bay in Egypt has a new director in Silvia Rajniak. Gorgeous Smiling has promoted Frank Werner Metlicar to Director of Operations for the DACH region. Paul Schwaiger is the new Director of two Arcona Hotels in Upper Austria and Bryan Johnston is the new Managing Director at the Althoff Hotel Fürstenhof Celle. Engin Ergün returns to Achat Hotels as head of the new Loginn Hotel Berlin. Anna Hassler, a hotel career changer, is the new Head of Marketing & PR at Empire Riverside Hotel and Hotel Hafen Hamburg. HVS has appointed Stephen Still as the new Associate Director of the London office.

Wiesbaden. Nick Balzan became Commercial Officer at Mangia's, Italy. Rick Medford fills the newly created position of Change Manager at Meiniger. Living Hotels appointed two new directors, Anna Riehe and Daniel Dörscher, and Peter Schoch returned to Switzerland from Croatia. At PKF hospitality, Simon Winker became Head of Project Development and at BNP Paribas Andreas Donner became Director National Hotel Services based in Berlin.

Augsburg. Premier Inn has repositioned itself in terms of personnel in its two hotels in Doha before the Football World Cup. In Amsterdam, Caroline Receveur has now moved to the city's new Maritim Hotel after NH and Hilton. The Adlon Kempinski is managed by a woman for the first time, Karina Ansos. Sandro Schmidt moves to Seetelhotels on Usedom as Cluster Manager. Frank Ketterer is the new GM of the Hotel Bristol Berlin, Albert Mayr the new Resident Manager at the Meliá Frankfurt City. And with Christian Kessler, a Pentahotel veteran now takes the reins at the Leipzig hotel.

Wiesbaden. Mandarin Oriental strengthens the international and European sales and distribution team with four heads. Siim Karu became CCO at Generator and Freehand Hotels. Olaf Dupke heads sales for Austria and Switzerland at Flemings Hotels. Lars Pursche is the new GM at Kempinski Estepona, Thomas Harlander as Managing Director at Rosewood Amsterdam and Jan Henningsen as GM at Hotel Berlin in Berlin. Daniel Bohnenkamp is HR Director at GCH Hotels. Nicolai Padoan became Project Manager at MRP Hotels and Georg Klostermann strengthens JLL's Hotel and Hospitality Capital Markets Team as Executive VP.

Wiesbaden. Steigenberger appointed Walid Nabil and Mehdi Othmani as General Managers of Steigenberger Hotels in Cairo and Hurghada. Marcel Heid became GM of the Roomers in Baden-Baden, Germany and Bianca Holzmann Hotel Director at Travel Charme's Fürstenhaus am Achensee, Austria.

Wiesbaden. Matthias Al-Amiry is now Managing Director at the Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, his predecessor Brice Péan moved to the Royal Maxim Palace Kempinski in Cairo. Starhotels have a new COO with Alex Dallocchio, Lorenzo Nencini became GM of the Starhotel Metropole and Michelangelo in Rome, his predecessor there, Graziano Luddi, is now responsible for special tasks in the company. Petra Trapp is GM of the Falkensteiner Hotel Kronplatz and René Schulz of the Maremüritz Yachthafen Resort. At BCD Travel, Michèle Lawley will become President at the end of August.

Wiesbaden. Gerhard Struger changes as Managing Director to the Fairmont Golden Prague and Emiel van Dijk is now General Manager at the Sofitel Munich Bayerpost. Gianrico Esposito became GM of the Excelsior Gallia in Milan and Nadine Michel Marketing Manager at the Best Western Plus Hotel in Bad Staffelstein. Nico Angles now supports the Business Development Team DACH at Radisson and Andreas Muschter joins Edge from Zech Group as CEO.

Wiesbaden. Andrea Agrusow says goodbye to the hospitality industry, Alain Bekaert is the new President at Logis Hotels. Heiko Rieder and Michael Posch now work for Hirmer Hospitality. IntercityHotel has filled four new management positions. Marc Waschal becomes Area Manager South at Bierwirth & Kluth and Christiane Kirchenbauer Deputy Director at Schlosshotel Kronberg. Deutsche Hospitality bids farewell to Claus-Dieter Jandel on his retirement.