Reading Time: < 1 minuteHong Kong: Ovolo Group’s Girish Jhunjhnuwala has won the Owner Operator Award at the 2012 DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards. The founder and CEO of

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUAE: Dan Cross, TripAdvisor’s territory manager MEA, to address Luxury Hospitality Summit on first public engagement. In taking up the newly created role, Cross will

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Bespoke Hotels has appointed Graham Marskell and Duncan Poole to its board. Marskell, formerly the group’s operations manager has been promoted to group operations

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrance: Bernard Magrez, owner of four classified wine estates in Bordeaux, is set to open the first in a small chain of boutique hotels in

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Commune Hotels & Resorts, the joint venture between Thompson Hotels and Joie de Vivre, has recruited Niki Leondakis from Kimpton. She takes up her

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Eric Kortenbach, has been appointed as operations director for a portfolio of four country hotels. The properties are Doxford Hall, Eshott Hall and Guyzance

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIndonesia: The Alila Jakarta hotel has announced the appointments of executive chef Tom Drange and director of sales Hotmida Petra Sari. Drange, a 43-year old

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThailand: Boutique Hotel Management Asia has appointed David Daguise as general manager of X2 Samui. Daguise will be based at the resort in Samui and

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Jeremy Goring, the fourth generation of his family to run The Goring Hotel in London’s Belgravia, has won the inaugural Independent Hotelier of the

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Caroline Dyal has been appointed as GM of Kimpton’s 98-room Canary Hotel in Santa Barbara. Dyal brings more than a decade of experience in