Conrad Cairo
Conrad Cairo has recently hosted The Canada Egypt Business Council (CEBC) special monthly event. The event drew a capacity crowd of 250 CEBC members including a number of high-profile cabinet ministers, media, tourism figures, ambassadors and officials. The discussion introduced and discussed ‘Tourism in the shadow of the Global Economic Crisis’. Seen in photo H.E Minister Zoheir Garana welcomed by Moataz Raslan Chairman CEBC and Kevin Brett General Manager- Conrad Cairo
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Clean-up Day
Employees gave their time to a Clean-up Day in Sharm El Sheikh Marriott Resort. This effort is part of Marriott International’s Spirit To Serve Our Communities Day, a worldwide initiative that enlists 151,000 employees from over 3,000 locations in 67 countries to deliver community service through volunteerism. Business leaders from all Marriott brands and businesses have pledged to dedicate a day to helping others during or close to the third week of May.
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Sheraton Cairo New Stylish
We never forget our cuddling mums with their love, care and tenderness which made our life prosperous & blessed. It’s your mum’s day, indulge her with your love and make her day a memorable one. We guarantee a superb dining experience at Bondoka, Sheraton Cairo New Stylish Trendy Outlet, where we offer BBQ lunch, special set menu for dinner and a special mother’s day cocktail together with live music band Sheraton Cairo Hotel wishes all Mums a Happy Mothers Day waiting for all mums to enjoy their Day there.
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Sheraton Cairo’s rooms
Sheraton Cairo’s owning company, generously invested in Sheraton Cairo’s renovation. The renovation cost amount up to US$ 52.000.000 and will cover all rooms, restaurants & bars, recreational facilities, meeting & banquet facilities as well as all public and back areas. Sheraton Cairo’s rooms have been totally refurbished; bathroom, lighting, shades, fixture & wall papers. Moreover new mini-bars and high technologies were added; WI-FI Connection & Interactive TVs.
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Department heads
All the department heads of Radisson SAS Hotel, Alexandria – located at the site of Alex West project – along with Ashraf Naguib the General Manager, Siegfried Nierhaus , Director of future openings and Ahmed kira the owning company representative have gathered to place the final touches & update their count down lists getting ready for the hotel expected soft opening in match 2009. All the staff members are very enthusiastic & willing to place the hotel as a market leader in Alexandria.
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Radisson SAS
Radisson SAS, one of the world’s most innovative, fast growing, contemporary hotel brands, is changing its name to Radisson Blu. This small, but significant name change marks the latest step forward in the remarkable Radisson SAS success story and reflects the natural end of Radisson’s links with the SAS Group following Rezidor’s IPO back in November 2006. The name change was announced on Wednesday 4 February 2009, at the Grand Opening party of the first Radisson Blu: the stunning Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport.
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The Marriott Red Sea
The Marriott Red Sea Resorts in Egypt have recently completed a three day navigating through Change training course. The training was attended by associates from Sharm El Sheikh Marriott, Renaissance Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada Marriott Resort and Taba Marriott Resort. The group participated in group discussions, gatherings, games and energizers. The Training instructors were: Mrs. Fatma Abbas, Area Director of Training, Middle East and Africa and Walid Mahfouz, Director of Training, JW Marriott Cairo.
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Karim Fouad
Karim Fouad, Director of Services of Sharm El Sheikh Marriott Resort announced the promotion of Hamdy Sakr as Executive Housekeeper for his hard work and outstanding results in the House keeping department since joining the resort since the opening in 1996.
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The Semiramis Intercontinental hotel
Team from the Semiramis Intercontinental hotel management and employees lead by the General Manager Juergen Baumhoff visited the Association for the Protection of the Environment to celebrate the Golden Nugget Award recently won by the hotel for its community activities and its recycling program and continued active role in serving and supporting community projects. A.P.E. is a private voluntary organization. Its Headquarters is in the Mokattam area of Cairo. Egypt. It has branches and committees in other areas and regions. It combines its aim to protect the environment and improve the livelihood of the garbage collectors communities through empowering them particularly their women, children and youth to become technologically able to manage a viable system of household waste including recycling in Egypt through comprehensive development: health, education, social, economic and cultural programs to become agents of change for a better environment.
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Starwood International
Starwood International for Hotels and Resorts has chosen Sheraton Montazah Hotel in Alexandria to hold the annual budget meeting for starwood Hotels Egypt . The meetings and work shops that lasted for 5 days consecutively were attended by the General Managers, Directors of sales, Directors of finance, Directors of Revenue, HR & Six Sigma Directors of Starwood Hotels Egypt and the Area Directors in presence of Hassan Ahdab, Vice President Starwood Hotels Africa and the Indian Ocean, Jean Pierr jokiel, Regional Director of finance, Marisa Aranha, Regional Director of Sales and Marketing , Sananikone Manomak, Regional Director of Revenue Management and Gueye Abib, Regional HR Director of Africa and the Indian Ocean together with Ibrahim Fahmy, Area Director stay wood Hotels Egypt.
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Nagy Arafat
The Sharm El Sheikh Marriott Red Sea Resort's team celebrated its great success after a drop of 4 consecutive years in Marriott Brand standard score. After a year full of success stories, hard work and strong efforts, the Sharm El Sheikh Marriott Red Sea Resort has got a remarkable score of 92%. "The property was in the Red Zone for the last four consecutive years, getting seventies, this year was a unique and difficult year for all Sharm El Sheikh Marriott's associates, said Nagy Arafat, General Manager of the resort. "All associates worked hard, lot of changes have been applied, lot of new ideas to exceed our guests expectations, working in a team work, in a friendliness atmosphere, everybody wants to help to satisfy guest needs. All associates were proud of this big success."
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jigsaw challenge
The Intercontinental Pyramids Park Resort team celebrated the 5th jigsaw challenge from Intercontinental hotels Group World wide; the winning Ways jigsaw Challenge is an Intercontinental Hotels group Global initiative, where all the company Hotels worldwide submits for launching new projects or supporting initiatives for each winning way. Intercontinental Pyramids Park sponsored a charity event on weekly and monthly basis with a Homeless senior Ladies Home near the resort . The aim is to make a change in their daily routine life. Twenty five serious ladies aged between seventy and eighty years live in this home. The charity event included donations as well as weekly and monthly activities. Seen in the picture Mr. Adel Hallaba the General Manager with all department heads in a group photo during the celebration party.
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Starwood introduced StarVoice
Based on Starwood belief of the importance of associates' satisfaction and engagement to achieve the company goal of exceeding the expectations of customers, owners and shareholders, ultimate attention is given to seek employees' opinion in the company leadership and management style. In order to better measure associate engagement -- and act on it - Starwood introduced StarVoice, Best In Class Survey, a new associate survey that give each and every associate the opportunity to provide feedback in their local language to the management leadership where they work as well as their opinion in their direct managers. The survey was carried in each and every property all over the world, in which 850 properties in more than 95 countries and 145,000 employees participated. Seen in the picture, Ibrahim Fahmy, best hotel Manager, Best Managing Director among the 10 recognized Department Heads.
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Team members
In creating a team spirit and strengthening ties between Ramses Hilton team members, Haitham Nassar, General Manager has invited the team members and their families to an outing in a sports club overlooking the River Nile. Team members spent an entire day of fun where contests were held in football, volleyball, ping-pong and chess, children enjoyed the family day playing the sack race, egg and spoon and tug-of-war as well as the magician and clown show. At the end of this successful event, which was organized by Magda Abdel Wahab, Human Resources Manager and her Team, Haitham Nassar, General Manager distributed valuable gifts and prizes to the winners.
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Offering quality service
Offering quality service is one of the major subjects that Starwood International for Hotels & Resorts is concerned about developing its concepts amongst its 135,000 employees all over the world.Consequently, several trainings are being given in all company hotel brands latest of which a comprehensive one has been delivered to Sheraton Montazah management team . The training given by Rana Tohamy, Director of service culture starwood Africa Europe and India Ocean and lasted for 3 days consecutively has focused on building comfort & loyalty, using Sheraton language creating careers best, enhancing managers coaching skills and building culture of trust, accountability and collaboration. Photo shows: Atef Wilson, General Manager of the Hotel and Rana Tohamy amongst the participants in the certification ceremony.
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Nermine Zakaria Balabel
Thierry Perrot Director of Operation IHG Egypt & Libya and General Manager Intercontinental Cairo CityStars recently appointed Nermine Zakaria Balabel in the position of Director of Training and Development for Intercontinental Hotels Group CityStars Complex. Photo shows: Nermine Zakaria Balabel.
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George Bell
Conrad Cairo has recently hosted the launch of the third Arabic - language edition for Guinness World Records Book. George Bell who is 223 cm was the spot light of the event, as the campaign setup the search for the tallest man in Egypt. Seen in photo, George Bell with Abdel Wanis Mohamed, (not a tall) team member from Conrad Cairo - Banquet Department.
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Gold Travelife Award
The Hurghada Marriott Red Sea Resort has recently received Gold Travelife Award for its commitment to environmental and social
sustainability. Aware of the need for responsible practice in resorts, leading tour operators in Europe are using a system called Travelife to assess hotels. It is fast becoming the most applicable system for use by Tour Operators and the only scheme chosen by them to be featured in future brochures. The picture shows Mr. Chris Thompson, Head of Responsible Tourism, FTO presenting Gold Travelife Award to Mr. Omar El Nemr, Director of Finance, Hurghada Marriott Red Sea Resort.
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Grand Rotana Resort
Grand Rotana Resort & Spa had the honor for being chosen to host King of Lesotho, H.M King Letsie III & his family for 8 days during their private visit to Sharm El Sheikh. His Majesty expressed his admiration of the resort’s unique location in the heart of the city, and the exclusive services & facilities offered at the resort. H.M & Family were also impressed by our restaurants which are catering to every taste and specially our signature restaurant the Silk Road with its 3 show kitchens where Eastern cooking compliments Western cuisine. H.M, highly appraised all stuff members for their loyalty & warming hospitality. The picture shows; Karim El Ghazzawi, General Manager of the resort, in welcoming the King of Lesotho, H.M. Letsie & his wife.
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Salvator Adamo
France's great francophone singer, Salvator Adamo, the most successful French singer of his time, recently played at the Semiramis InterContinental. It was the first time ever that Adamo performed in Egypt in a concert held under the auspices of the French Embassy in Cairo. His songs were genuine and amongst his repertoire were worldwide hits Vous Permettez Monsieur, the infamous Tombe la Neige, Inch Allah, and La nuit. Photo shows; Famous French singer Adamo midst Hoda Aboud and Juergen Baumhoff, General Manager of the Semiramis InterContinental during Adam’s grandiose performance at the hotel .
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Maged Nasr
Ahmed El Hady, Regional Director of Marketing Hyatt Hotels and Resorts in Egypt and Jordan, announced the appointment of Maged Nasr as the new Director of Sales and Marketing for Grand Hyatt Cairo. Coming from Steigenberger hotels whereby he was holding the position of the Regional Director of Marketing for Steigenberger properties in Egypt, Maged brings to Grand Hyatt Cairo marketing team many years of experience in several International hotel chains such as Starwood, and Intercontinental.
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Grand Hyatt Cairo's employees
Honesty and integrity are a common character amongst Grand Hyatt Cairo's employees. In this regard Nabil Samuel, Regional Director of Human Resources Hyatt Hotels and Resorts Egypt, rewarded employees who found valuable items and delivered it to the lost and found department so that it could be returned to its owner. All those employees are an excellent example of Hyatt’s integrity competencies. The picture shows Nabil Samuel, Regional Director of Human Resources Egypt and Emy El Shourbagi, Marketing Communications Coordinator expressing appreciation to all employees for their honesty.
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Dalia Amer
Ashraf Naguib the GM of the new Radisson SAS Hotel in Alexandria has decided to appoint Dalia Amer in the position of Director of Sales & Marketing for her extensive experience in the hospitality field with major multi-national hotels' chains. "The evolution in the types of tourism in Alexandria specifically implied introducing a property like Radisson SAS “says Dalia” for its remarkable Corporate, MICE & entertainment facilities".
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Ramses Hilton strategy
In the framework of Ramses Hilton strategy for constantly delivering, providing the best service to its guests to meet their satisfactions, Haitham Nassar, Ramses Hilton General Manager has recently inaugurated the Laundry and Valet department after its extensive renovations, in the presence of Tarek Moharam, General Manager of Arab International Company for Hotels and Tourism (Hotel Owning Company) as well as all Ramses Hilton Managers and Team Members. Shown in the picture: Mr. Tarek Moharam, Haitham Nassar, Abdel Rahman Halim Laundry Manager Celebrating this occasion with Ramses Hilton Team members.
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Wael Ragai
Appointment of Wael Ragai as Director of Sales and Marketing of Movenpick Hotel Cairo – Media City. Movenpick Hotel Cairo – Media City Management has promoted Wael Ragai to Director of Sales and Marketing . Wael joined Movenpick Hotels & Resorts since 2000 as a sales Manager for Movenpick Nile Cruises and then he moved within several sales positions in Sheraton Hotels in Egypt . Wael rejoined Movenpick Hotels & Resorts as Assistant Director of Sales and Marketing for Movenpick Hotels Cairo – Media City where he efficiently applied his long work experience.
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Holiday In Cairo City Stars
Holiday In Cairo City Stars recently celebrated the opening of the brand new Indian restaurant Indian. Indira offers a cuisine that it as divers as India’s culture ,languages, regions and its ambiance with its own unique dishes and delicate variations to popular dishes. where cooking skill lies in the subtle blending of a variety of spices to enhance the basic flavor of particular dish . Clients even can call the restaurant in advance of a visit and request special meals, also for exclusive dining India offers a private area that suits all special occasions.
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Nihad Kattan
During a recent visit to Taba Heights Marriott Red Sea Resort, Nihad Kattan, Marriott International vice president for the Middle East & Africa, celebrated career milestones with two associates. Jan G. Has been celebrated 25 years with Marriott International. He started his career in his native Holland and held key positions in Asia Pacific, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Jordan before becoming General Manager in Taba Heights. Wael Amer celebrated 20 years with Marriott International. He began at the Cairo Marriott and held positions in Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada before joining the team in Taba last year as Resident Manager.
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