Key Appointments for Aquis Hotels and Resorts
OCTOBER 3, 2008. Eastern Mediterranean hotel group Aquis Hotels & Resorts expands its executive management board and creates a new operations director role.
Joining the management board is Karim Garranah, who founder and chairman of Garranah Touristic Group, one of the biggest tourism companies in Egypt. Its interests include Tarot Tours, Mirotel for Floating Hotels and Azur Hotels and Resorts.
Garranah also serves as board member of Orascom Hotels and Development, a global town developer specialising in planning, building and operating integrated, self-sufficient leisure and residential towns around the world. Orascom is also one of the largest resort operators in Egypt.
Aquis managing director Panagiotis Katsaridis said: "Having someone of Karim's staus join our management board is a huge coup for a start-up. He will sit alongside other members of the management board who include Aquis chairman David Howells, who is chairman of Western & Oriental, youtravel.com chief executive John Kent and Amathus Holidays' managing director Andreas Vasiliou. Karim will provide invaluable insight and experience to the management board."
Also joining the Aquis team is Andreas Antoniou who joins from Louis Hotels Greece to take on the role of operations director from October 1. He spent nine years as general manager overseeing all of the Louis properties in Greece. Prior to this he spent 10 years at the Athens Hilton. Antoniou will be based in Aquis' headoffice in Athens, Greece.
Katsaridis addd: "We are delighted that both Karim and Andreas are joining the team. They will be instrumental in our aim of developing a group of top-end hotels in the eastern Mediterranean with marketing-leading facilities and services."
Aquis Hotels and Resorts is a new upmarket hotel group which launched in July 2008. It has acquired five properties in the eastern Mediterranean and plans to increase its portfolio significantly in the next 12 months. The company has five properties; three in Corfu, and one in Kos and one in Crete.
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