Arora Hotels Appoint Sales & Marketing and Food & Beverage Directors for InterContinental® London - The O2

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. June 29, 2015

LONDON, UK. June 29, 2015 - Arora Hotels has boosted the senior management team of its forthcoming InterContinental® London - The O2 with the appointment of Viola Ncube as Director of Sales & Marketing and Carl Chapman as Director of Food & Beverage in advance of the luxury 453-room hotel launch winter 2015.

Viola joins the InterContinental London - The O2 team with over 20 years' global experience working within the hotel and hospitality management industry from her previous role as VP at Global Hospitality Services where she spent the last four years taking the business from a start-up with just 13 hotels to a portfolio of over 150, 4 and 5 star hotels and offices in 15 countries worldwide.

Carl brings with him a wealth of award-winning dining experience from iconic brands, joining the team from Fairmont Hotels & Resorts in Canada where he has spent the last two years as Assistant Director of Food and Beverage at the Fairmont Chateaux Lake Louise in Banff National Park, overseeing eight restaurants, bars and dining outlets across the resort.

Viola, who speaks six languages, has extensive commercial hospitality and hotel experience in international markets including the USA, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and Europe having held Director of Sales positions for Pineapple Marketing, Lux Hotels Worldwide, Red Carnation and Accor. Viola's experience also covers several new hotel openings including the 5 star Meikles Hotel in Harare - part of Leading Hotels of the World - The Puli Hotel in Shanghai, The Upper House in Hong Kong and The Montpellier in Cheltenham. In addition, Viola's passion for youth mentoring and leadership has been well recognised following her launch of iROCK! UK, an accredited social enterprise providing mentoring, training and access to employment programmes for young people, having secured her Social Entrepreneur of the Year, a spot on The Power 100 List, regular speaking slots and an advisory role with the Secretary General and Director of the United Nations Women Equality.

Carl has extensive London experience having worked prior to Fairmont at The Savoy and Simpsons in the Strand, where he was headhunted to oversee the re-opening following years of restoration, along with private dining, events and food and beverage management roles with Claridges, Hyatt Regency Churchill, Hilton and Guoman in the capital. Hasham Soliman, General Manger of the InterContinental London - The O2 comments, “I am delighted to welcome Viola and Carl to our growing team of senior professionals handpicked to launch this spectacular new hotel on the Greenwich Peninsula. Both Viola and Carl's extensive London and international luxury hotel experience and their passion for customer service, commitment to leadership and proven commercial achievements in their respective fields, present winning formulas for the launch and long term success of what will be a truly iconic new InterContinental for London.”

InterContinental® London - The O2 opens winter 2015 on the Greenwich Peninsula, opposite Canary Wharf and adjacent to The O2. The impressive 18-storey luxury hotel features 453 spacious guest rooms - including 50 suites - as well as a 4,500sqm+ dedicated conference centre with a 3,100sqm pillar-free ballroom and 1,600sqm pre-function space overlooking the river Thames. With a myriad of facilities for leisure and entertainment, the hotel boasts a fine dining and all-day dining restaurant, rooftop Sky Bar and lounge with Tea Salon inspired by Greenwich's naval heritage. In addition, the iconic InterContinental features a luxury spa with indoor swimming pool and Jacuzzi and treatment rooms for a range of signature brand beauty and relaxation therapies.

The InterContinental London - The O2 is managed and operated by The Arora Group under a franchise agreement with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®). http://www.iclondon-theo2.com/ @InterConTheO2

Arora Group

One of the UK's fastest growing privately-owned hotel companies, Arora has made a name for itself through the design, construction and operation of luxury hotels, with exceptional levels of hospitality. The group's current portfolio comprises 2,920 bedrooms and 120 meeting rooms across 7 hotels including Sofitel London Heathrow & Sofitel London Gatwick (under a franchise agreement with Accor), Renaissance London Heathrow (under a franchise agreement with Marriott), Holiday Inn London Heathrow - T5 (under a franchise agreement with IHG), the Arora Hotel Gatwick/Crawley, Savill Court Hotel & Spa near Windsor and the forthcoming the InterContinental® London - The O2, to be operated by the Arora Group under a franchise agreement with InterContinental® Hotels Group (IHG) opening winter 2015. The property arm of the Arora Group - Arora Management Services - is involved in property asset management of a portfolio of landmark office buildings at key UK airports. The development arm, trading as Grove Developments secured agreements to design and construct five new budget hotels at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Aberdeen airports, the first of which opened in 2012. www.arorainternational.com

For more information please contact
Julia Gosling
Davies Tanner
[email protected]
+44 (0)1892 617909

Esther Ehrhardt, Commercial Assistant
Arora Group
[email protected]
+44 (0) 20 8757 7771