Franck LaFourcade Returns to Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi as GM

Franck LaFourcade has returned to the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi as General Manager.

General Manager of the Metropole from 2000 to 2005, LaFourcade has come back to the hotel after nearly nine years in China, managing Sofitel properties in Shanghai as a General Manager and as an Area General Manager.

The hotel he has inherited from the previous General Manager, Kai Speth, is good deal larger than the hotel he left in 2005, with 364 rooms now, compared to the 232 rooms available in 2005.

“Many people could look at the Metropole today and say, ‘Voilà, there’s no more to do,’” said LaFourcade. “But for a hotelier, the glass is always half full. We have endless opportunities in store, and a few surprises, too, as we work to build on the able accomplishments of my predecessors.”

A French national, LaFourcade is a 1980 graduate of the prestigious Lausanne Hotel School in Switzerland, who relocated to Asia in 1990 and has never looked back.

He assumed his first stint as a General Manager in Phnom Penh in 1993, and has moved on through the years to Singapore, Pusan (Korea) and Jakarta before his time in Hanoi and his long run in Shanghai.