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Asia/Singapore Thursday, 28th March 2024
View From The Top

View From The Top

It’s chow time

Lucas Chow never bites off more than he can chew. The group CEO and MD of Far East Orchard Singapore tells Raini Hamdi how...

View from the Top: Brett Tollman

Envisioning Japanese-language Insight Vacations departures, Chinese chartering his Uniworld cruises, Red Carnation hotels in Asia - Brett Tollman is taking a 40-year-old family-owned business centred on...

View from the Top: Simon Barlow

How did you land this job? I was with Hilton International as vice-president of Asia and later as president of the Americas. When Hilton Hotels...

Talent scouting for South Beach

South Beach Consortium is set to raise Singapore's 'cool' level when it soft-opens in 1Q2015. The search for talent to run the hotel is...

View from the top: Iqbal Jumabhoy (SilverNeedle Hospitality)

The journey is just starting for this Singapore-based hotel company, which has undergone a consolidation in the last nine months and is now ready...

View from the top: Leong Wy Joon (Berjaya Land and Berjaya...

Born with an artistic flair and trained in accountancy, Leong tells Karen Yue that he has never thought of becoming a hotelier. Yet, his...

View from the top: Chang Theng Hwee

His customers are multi-millionaires who expect to be blown away by once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Chang Theng Hwee of Singapore-based Country Holidays Travel tells Brian Higgs...

Fresh thinking

At only 26, Chris Gothong, owner and general manager, Best Western Sand Bar Resort, Cebu, Philippines is blazing a path in hotels for a...

Going beyond growing pains

Thailand’s minister of tourism & sports Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul tells Xinyi Liang-Pholsena why creating sustainable inclusive growth in tourism remains an enduring aim and challenge What’s...

Not a one-legged stool anymore

Orlando-based Associated Luxury Hotels has morphed into a full service independent hotel chain with its purchase of WorldHotels 18 months ago. Its chief commercial officer Tom Santora, also executive chairman of WorldHotels, shares more about the acquisition synergies

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