LUZI Matzig is handing over the CEO baton of Asian Trails and Kuoni Destination Management Asia-Pacific to Laurent Kuenzle effective January 1, 2014.
Matzig will assume the role of chairman of the company he founded in 1999. The succession was planned, with Kuenzle, a co-founder and currently group managing director, ensuring continuity.
Kuenzle said: “I am blessed with the best management and staff team one could possibly hope for and a very wise mentor. I look forward to lead Asian Trails in its continued success.”
Matzig said he did not intend to be a sleeping chairman. He told TTG Asia e-Daily: “Even in my reduced role at Asian Trails, I will still be very much connected to the pulse of the business as I will head the introduction of our new IT system in 2014 which will bring major improvements in speed of response, capacity, availability of services plus efficient accounting and statistics.
“Secondly, since I will travel less, I will be in the office in Bangkok more frequently thus assuring staff and managers of continuity.”
The avid pilot also hopes to have more time for his hobby and will himself fly many Medevac missions throughout Asia for his VIP-Jets.
