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Tag: Hotel Management

To the hotel born

Although Carina Chorengel is the daughter of Hyatt ‘royalty’, her parents made sure she started on the ground floor, where she grew to love the industry, writes Margie Logarta. ...

Breaking with tradition

Ovolo Group COO Dirk Dalichau is looking for 120 people to staff a new kind of Hong Kong hotel, writes Raymond Ma. ...

Hotel boss’s Renaissance period

With more than 20 years of experience in the hotel industry, Ricky Yeung, director of front office at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel, knows how to deliver five-star service to guests from around the world, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Hotel trainee groomed at the Inn

After graduating from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in hotel management, Michelle Wong got the ball rolling on her hospitality career straight away by starting out on the I-Grad Future Leaders Programme at the Holiday Inn Golden Mile Hong Kong, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Crowne Plaza intern ensures VIP treatment

As a front-office intern at the Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Causeway Bay hotel, one of Mandy Chung Man-shum’s jobs is to serve the hotel’s VIP guests, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Hotel director faces tough battle for guests

After joining the hospitality industry, Kevin Lam, director of sales at InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, discovered that he was so fascinated by the flexible job nature of working in a hotel, he decided to further his education in hotel management, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Surpass expectations with personal touch

Ronald Cheung, front office manager at the Cosmopolitan Hotel Hong Kong in Wan Chai, joined the hotel as guest service manager in 2005, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

A good ear for service

Pentahotel in Diamond Hill is looking for young and young-at-heart recruits who know how to listen well, reports Andrea Zavadszky. ...

More rooms, more hands

About 20 hotels with as many as 3,000 rooms are expected to be built in Hong Kong in 2013, writes Chiu Po-sze. ...

Blue skies ahead for Indigo staff

Hotel Indigo Hong Kong Island is set to open in Wan Chai early next year, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...