HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Arash Azarbarzin has been promoted with SH Hotels & Resorts to Chief Executive Officer. He was most recently serving […]
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For so many years, hoteliers who made the decision to switch to club management were looked down upon by their “true hospitality” colleagues. After all, running a club used to be tantamount to regulating a flock of entitled folks proud to belong where their money would isolate them from the riffraff. A place where they […]
Continue ReadingFEBRUARY 2021 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Following the passing of Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands Corp. has permanently named Robert Goldstein Chairman/Chief […]
Continue ReadingGLOBAL WARMING VS. THE GREAT GOLD RUSH TO SKI RESORTS
Time after time over the past 20 years, we have been told that snow is going to become a very scarce commodity. And we witnessed it several years ago in various parts of the world, when it failed to show up during part or most of the snow season. Yet, during that very same period, […]
Continue ReadingJANUARY 2021 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Jacqueline Volkart has been appointed dual General Manager for the Ritz-Carlton Resorts of Miami Beach, including the Ritz-Carlton South […]
Continue ReadingDECEMBER 2020 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Aimbridge Hospitality has named Michael Deitemeyer Chief Executive Officer. He takes over from Dave Johnson who moves into […]
Continue ReadingTHE WHOLE SOMETIMES COSTS MORE THAN THE SUM OF THE PARTS
Lou Hammond Associates, one of my all-time favorite hospitality PR firms, happens to represent the 113-year-old Fifth Avenue Association. The association was the first endeavor of its kind to realize the need to create mutually advantageous ties between and among its members. One does not eat all day, one does not buy jewelry all day, […]
Continue ReadingNOVEMBER 2020 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Edouard Grosmangin has been named Managing Director of the Rosewood São Paulo, opening in 2021. He was most […]
Continue ReadingFURLOUGH MANAGEMENT
A fresh new concept COVID 19 is killing us. No secret about that. Business is down to crumbs of its old self. The first massive furloughs took place early spring. The idea was that COVID 19 would be over by summer (warm weather – you know). That just did not happen. And we are entering […]
Continue ReadingOCTOBER 2020 – HEADS above the Rest®
HEADS above the Rest® by Susana Parks and Benoit Gateau-Cumin The Newsletter of The Boutique Search Firm, a worldwide retained recruiting firm specializing in hospitality management. Global Update: Who’s where and doing what THE AMERICAS Loews Hotels has named Alex Tisch President. He was most recently the Chief Commercial & Development Officer / Executive […]
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