Who Else Is Doing What: Aug 19

Editor’s Note: We know one of the values you bring to your customers is the personal relationships you’ve developed with leading hoteliers around the world. To help you keep up with your favorite GMs and hotel executives as they move around and open new properties, Travel Market Report has engaged Mary Gostelow to provide a monthly update of who’s doing what. Gostelow is founder and editor of Gostelow Report, a subscription newsletter read globally by hotel owners and executives, and a contributor to Hotels magazine, as well as a moderator at numerous conferences for hoteliers.

Ignacio Masias opens 9-room Lima Atemporal, a conversion of a 1940s family home • Duncan Palmer opens 336-room Hong Kong Niccolo by Marco Polo • Marc Dobbels opens 46-room St Barth Le Barthélemy, SLH •  Maria Skubal opens LodgeWorks’ 171-room Austin TX Archer • Michael Parker opens Poly Real Estate’s 290-room Sanya Rosewood Haitang Bay • Cindy Bedan opens 155-room Denver Halcyon Cherry Creek, BMC Investments and Sage Hospitality’s $70 million newbuild on the Columbine Street post office site • Christopher Adams opens 32-room Vientiane President by Akaryn, a Small Luxury Hotel (SLH) • Susie Crowley opens 17-room Martinique French Coco Tartane, SLH • Dinah-Louise Marrs opens 134-room Brisbane Swiss-Belhotel • Stacy Rivera opens Pacifica’s 68-room Venice Beach CA Kinney • Dilan Van Ryn opens 144-room Green Bay WI Lodge Kohler • Günter Weilguni opens 131-room Gstaad Huus Hotel • Inmaculada Palencia opens 180-room Madrid Gran Melià Palacio de los Duques, Leading, home of 19th century Dukes of Granada • Andrew Cairns opens 500-room Perth Crown Towers • David Hoffman opens War Horse’s 128-room Baltimore MD Sagamore Pendry • Marc-Olivier Raffray re-opens 147-room Paris Crillon for Rosewood • Andrew Chippindall re-opens 180-room Paradise Valley AZ Mountain Shadows Resort, for Crown Realty, Westroc and Woodbine Development • Ilse Harley re-flags Starwood Capital’s 166-room Anguilla Viceroy as Four Seasons • Marc Emanuel reflags PPHG-owned 273-room Hanoi Sofitel Plaza as Pan Pacific • Stephen Johnson morphs Hyatt’s 116-room Phoenix AZ Royal Palms into an Unbound label.

Other mds/gms: Leonardo Baiocchi Dubai Four Seasons at Jumeirah Beach • Franck Arnold Toronto Ritz-Carlton • Gerrit Graef Riyadh Ritz-Carlton Riyadh • Torsten Dressler Beijing Kempinski Lufthansa Center • Frank Prasmo Shenyang Kempinski • Oliver Kuhn Ulaanbaatar Kempinski Khan Palace • Aurelio Giraudo Kinshasa Kempinski Fleuve Congo • Sean Hadley San Jose CA AC Downtown • Ryan Krukar Stowe VT Topnotch Resort • David Givens Kohala HI Hilton Waikoloa Village • Philippe Le Bourhis Bangkok Pullman Hotel G • Philippe Rubod Geneva Métropole • Marco Ortlam St Thomas USVI Ritz-Carlton • Douglas Libby Tabernash CO Devil’s Thumb Ranch • Michael Pedder Seattle Four Seasons • Corinne Finn-Heyl Kennebunkport ME Inn and siblings • Nicole Sinclair Miami Beach FL Faena • John Markunas St Pete Beach FL Zamora • Peter Carmichael Key West FL Casa Marina (and The Reach) • Johnny So Orlando FL Loews Universal Portofino Bay • Ronald Hoogerbrugge Chicago InterCon • Joseph Turano New York Millennium Broadway • Alex Spektor New York Innside • Ash Bhasin New York Sixty SoHo • Nelson Tan Xiamen Pan Pacific • Yves Monnin Paris Raphael • Richard Cooke Edinburgh Balmoral • James Wilson Doha Centara Grand West Bay • Marcel Henneke Mallorca Steigenberger Camp de Mar •  Adam Zilber Guanacaste Andaz Papagayo.

Vipin Khattar Dubai Hyatt Regency • Mohammad Labban Sharm El Sheikh Hyatt Regency • Sue Williams Malmesbury Whatley Manor • Jean Guillaumot Le Touquet Barrière Le Westminster • Melvin Lim Singapore Marina Mandarin • Eli Maor Tel Aviv W Hotel • Alex Ahluwalia Palm Desert CA JW Marriott Desert Springs • Wolfgang Selinger Frankfurt Le Méridien Parkhotel • Bill Babis New York Kimpton Muse • Alistair Forrest Antigua Blue Waters Resort • Nicholas Gold Riviera Maya Thompson Playa del Carmen • Horst Walther-Jones Jimbaran Mövenpick • Kathleen Flanary Boston MA Boxer (was Bulfinch) • Tim Flodin Los Angeles James West Hollywood • Andrew Eck Chicago Kinzie • Robert Shelley Chicago Radisson Blu Aqua • Jaime Jaramillo Riviera Maya NIZUC • Mike Case Denver CO Marriott Tech Center • Ronald Kooistra Willemstad Acoya • Andy Cuthbert Dubai Mina a’Salam • Andrew Davidson Dallas TX Rosewood Crescent • Christoph Leonhard Maldives Amari Havodda • Paul Brackley London Shangri-La at The Shard.

©Mary Gostelow 2016   (Mary Gostelow has been producing the monthly Gostelow Report market intelligence newsletter since 1992, gostelow@aol.com)