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Augsburg. James Sherwood, the founder of the Orient Express Hotels, passed away in mid-May. The former CEO of Commerz Real, Andreas Muschter, will become CFO of The Student Hotel. Kempinski manager Eike Clausen moves from Aqaba to Malta. Denis Hüttig is now in charge of the operations of all hotels of the Steigenberger brand. 25hours has internal changes for the hotels in Vienna and Zurich. Erik Florvaag, previously Art-Invest partner, takes over the management of Ghotel Hotels.The family-run Park-Hotel Egerner Höfe at lake Tegernsee in Bavaria has hired a new director after the sale of the hotel. A new man is also at the helm of the Maxx Hotel in Potsdam and a manager with experience in the USA has taken over the Arborea Hotel on the Baltic Sea.

Augsburg. Joanna Gunn supports Rosewood as Chief Brand Officer. Matthias Heck, CFO Deutsche Hospitality, will leave the company. Cycas Hospitality strengthens its regional teams in France and Germany with five new appointments. Tabea Schalkowsky is the new Head of Marketing at Achat Hotels, Hotel BollAnts in Bad Kreuznach has a new director in Jörg Stricker, and Mews' Managing Director Bastian Stosic is now building up the hotel business with an eMobility provider.

Augsburg. Felizitas Denz takes over the operation of the east Hotel Hamburg, Reiner Heilmann hands over the management of Hotel Sacher Vienna to Andreas Keese, and Gabriele Maessen is the new president of the Cornell Hotel Society Germany.

Augsburg. Marriott International‘s Dave Grissen to retire, Penta Hotels Worldwide appointed Rogier Braakman as new Managing Director, Andreas Erben passed on his responsibilities as Managing Director of Gorgeous Smiling Hotels and Frank Rückner took over the management of Hotel Berlin in Berlin.

Augsburg. Ajit Menon is promoted to Interim CEO at Meininger Hotels, the new CFO is Andrew Scott. Oliver Elsässer joins Brera Serviced Apartments in the operational division. Center Parcs appointed Andrea Nestle as General Manager of Park Allgäu in Leutkirch, Germany and Georgios Daskalakis moved to Abaton Island Resort in Crete.

Augsburg. Steigenberger appoints André Witschi, an old acquaintance, as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Dion Maes becomes General Manager of the 25hours in Paris and Travel Charme Hotels & Resorts fills two new management positions. Patrizia AG welcomes a new Co-CEO in Thomas Wels and says farewell to COO Klaus Schmitt, while Anna Heuer takes over the management of HSMA Germany.

Augsburg. The coronavirus has displaced almost all other topics in the last week. For the change to the 2nd quarter of 2020 there were now news again, including a death notice due to corona. There were changes at B&B Hotels Italy, at QR Quality Reservations, Dorint Hotels, 25hours Bikini Berlin and Intercity Hotels. Furthermore, two well-known developers changed the company.

Augsburg. IHG lets Martin Bowen and Caspar Kraushaar go and appoints Miguel Martins as Head of Development, Northern Europe. Deutsche Hospitality has to say goodbye to Gabriele Maessen and announces three new Area Managers and General Managers respectively. Andreas Kartschoke is the new director of the Hotel Bachmair am See and Janet Schroeder takes over the lead of Schlossgut Gross Schwansee.

Augsburg. Frank Marrenbach switches from Oetker Collection to Althoff Hotels. Kempinski appoints Wafik Youssef as new Vice President Operations, Middle East & Africa, while at Millenium Hotels and Resorts Hamid Sidine takes over the role of Managing Director for Saudi Arabia and COO for Turkey and Africa. Rolf E-Brönnimann swaps the Budersand Hotel for the Savoy Hotel Baur au Ville and Martin Dell becomes General Manager of the Four Seasons Hotel Prague. There are new responsibilities for the German-speaking countries with Annette Hopfensperger at Accor Academy and Eric Tapper as Key Account at B&B Hotels.

Augsburg. John Brady is the new Corporate Director E-Commerce at Vienna House. Kempinski, Wyndham and Pentahotels appoint new general managers: Richard Appelbaum, Helge Lütters and Carsten Schieck. And Savills strengthens its hotel investment team with Ann-Katrin Kaiser.

Augsburg. Premier Inn appoints Ling Dross as Distribution Manager. At Novum Hospitality there is a coming and going: CFO Torsten Scholl leaves the company and will be replaced by Dr Stefan Gneuss. And B&B has a new Head of eBusiness in Klaas-Jan Meijer.

Augsburg. Orascom mourns the loss of its CEO Khaled Bichara. – Six Senses hired a new CCO and LVMH a specialist in the hotel and restaurant business. Rosewoood extended the power of their VP Global Sales & Marketing, Radisson expanded the geographical responsibility for its Area Senior Vice President, and Kempinski created a new position for Global Sales and The Americas. Marriott expanded his EMEA marketing team. Kerten Hospitality hired its first Global Commercial Head, the German Althoff Group two new heads for the Ameron and Urban Loft brands. TUI Group has hired a new Director for Sustainability and in Berlin there is a new Director for the Hotel Bristol. The new, almost completed Loftststyle Hotel Hanover has found its director, Colliers International another senior consultant. There were also new elections at HEDNA.

Augsburg. Unexpected GM change at Adlon Berlin: Matthias Al-Amiry is transferred to Singapore, Michael Sorgenfrey takes over. Palladium Hotels has a new President and a new CEO. Mark Sands is promoted to Vice President of Wellness at Six Senses. Robert van der Graaf will take up his position as Director Development for the DACH region at IHG Althoff Hotels appoints Martin Steiner as Director of Finance Ameron Switzerland and RIMC appoints two new hotel directors in Switzerland. Stefan Schwind replaces Andreas Johannes Kartschoke as Director at Elephant Weimar, who is retiring. The law firm Hogan Lovells is gaining a new partner in Sandra Handke. And Commerz Real is strengthening its commitment to sustainability with two new executives, Tobias Huzarski and Viola Joncic.

Wiesbaden. RIMC has upgraded in HR and Controlling with Jana Thielsen and Johannes Louris, The Welcome Hotel in Wesel has a new Director, Relais & Châteaux Italia has a new President and La Vie Hotels has a new Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Terme die Saturnia has strengthened its management team and Fairmas has a new location in Valencia with an experienced manager.

Augsburg. Rotana has now officially appointed Guy Hutchinson as the new President and CEO. At NH Rogier M. Hurkmans takes the position of Regional Operations Director for 21 hotels in Germany and Austria. Roomers Munich has a new hotel manager in Fabian Ahrendt, and Benjamin Ploppa changed from BNP Paribas to Christie & Co Germany.

Augsburg. On New Year's Day the founder of the German Lindner Hotels, Otto Linder, passed away. The revenue management specialist IDeaS also mourns the passing of its top manager Fabian Specht. – B&B Germany Managing Director Max Luscher becomes regional CEO for Central and Northern Europe. Kempinski now announces new names at management level almost weekly: this week a new VP HR and a new VP Global Sustainability. At Seetel, Walter Neumann as CED now has the operation under his belt. At JLL Hotels, Heidi Schmidtke has taken over the management, Stefan Giesemann has left. TUI Suisse is looking for a successor for its CEO Martin Wittwer. Leonardo is strengthening Convention Sales, and the Dutch Duco E. de Vries is now taking over Bahrain as GM.

Augsburg. Andrea Jörger advances to Chief Developer at RIMC. Peter Habelitz is the new CFO at the Dutch operator Cycas Hospitality. Fritz Joussen remains TUI CEO until 2025,. Now Sasha Brin also leaves the Kempinski development team in Geneva. Kempinski-GM Martin Cramer will remain at the Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi under the new operator Mandarin Oriental. The new GM of Rocco Forte Villa Kennedy Frankfurt comes from Munich and the Director of Europäischer Hof Hamburg comes from Cologne.

Augsburg. Selina has a new Managing Director for Germany and Austria: Graham Major-Ex. Sonnenhotels complements its management board with Mathias Laux. Tobias Hannemann takes over the position of Corporate Director of Operations at NOVUM Hospitality. Carsten Werblow moves to the Gambino Hotel Werksviertel as Director and hands over his previous position.

Augsburg. Christophe Piffaretti is the new Chief Development Officer of Kempinski Hotels, Melissa Salibi becomes Chief Human Resources Officer and Marcel Kleffner VP Finance Europe. The first two are now also members of the Management Board. Hartmut Schröder makes way for Fleming's family offspring. Planteno Germany has a new Head of Finance. The Tschuggen Hotel Group has a new double head. In addition, there will be many GM changes and no CEO at Expedia any more.

Augsburg. Svein Arild Stehen-Mevold takes over as Chief Portfolio Officer at Scandic at the turn of the year. Max Gross takes over Rober van der Graaf's duties at Radisson. The 12.18. group of companies brings Johann Kerkhofs on board. While Martin Brehm becomes the new GM of Maxx by Steigenberger Bad Honnef, Lina Wolf takes over the management of me and all Hotel Kiel. Stefan D. Ringgenberg became GM of Schloss Fuschls.