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Malta-based Corinthia Hotels International (CHI)
has appointed German national Stefan Buchs as General Manager of the Corinthia Hotel
Prague. Stefan Buchs has also been appointed Vice President of Western and Central Europe for CHI.
In addition to managing the five-star Prague hotel, Stefan will be directly
responsible for all of CHI’s operations and profitability across the
Corinthia, Wyndham and Ramada brands that the company operates in the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Portugal, and Russia. He will be based in Prague, and will be reporting directly to company Chief Executive Officer Tony Potter.
Stefan’s background and experience as an international hotelier well equips
him for his new role. He joins CHI from London where he was a successful
senior general manager at the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair. Previous to that,
he was general manager of London’s Portman Hotel for three years and general
manager of the Radisson SAS 5-Star Deluxe Hotel in Prague for another five.
Besides being an experienced operator, Stefan has extensive sales and marketing experience across Europe with Radisson SAS and also with Hilton
International. During his long career with Hilton, he held positions of director of
sales and marketing at the 800-bedroomed Prague Hilton, assistant area director of sales based in Germany, and travel trade area sales manager. He was also
the director of sales and marketing for the Radisson Prague.
Commenting on Stefan’s appointment from CHI’s headquarters in Malta, Chief
Executive Officer Tony Potter said “We are fortunate to have Stefan join our
team at such an exciting period in our international expansion drive. His
recognized management skills and wide multi-market and multi-brand experience
fit our newly created regional set up to a tee. Stefan’s immediate focus will
be our Czech operations and in particular the Corinthia Hotel Prague. At the
same time, he will be taking immediate overall control of the other hotels
falling within his regional responsibility, ensuring the development of the
Corinthia, Wyndham and Ramada brand cultures and standards within the various
CHI properties in that region.”
Stefan is a graduate of the Les Roches Crans-Montana hotel school in
Switzerland and speaks fluent German, English and French. He will take up his new
appointment on 1 April 2008.
The Corinthia Hotel Prague is a member of the newly repositioned upper
luxury Corinthia Hotels brand and of the Wyndham Grand Collection. It is owned by
Malta based International Hotel Investments plc (IHI) and managed by Corinthia Hotels International (CHI), a hotel
operating company that is a joint venture between IHI and the Wyndham Hotel Group.
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