Alastair McAlpine Joins Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou as GM

Alastair McAlpine has been appointed General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake.

Originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, Alastair began his career as a trainee sommelier at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.

He graduated in Hotel Management from the Scottish Hotel School at Strathclyde University in 1993 and started his Four Seasons journey at the former Regent Hong Kong in 1996, first as a Management Trainee and then as Assistant Director of Food and Beverage.

Hong Kong was followed by four postings as Food and Beverage Director in the Maldives, Tokyo, Washington DC and New York.

Alastair was the opening Resort Manager at Lanai, Hawaii from July 2005 to June 2008, before his first General Manager posting in the Maldives at Kuda Huraa.

Alastair moved to the Seychelles as General Manager in November 2009, and then to Langkawi in late 2011. Hangzhou will be Alastair's tenth Four Seasons property.

“Hangzhou is just the most surprising part of China I’ve ever seen,” said Alastair McAlpine “You forget you’re surrounded by so many people here. You go to bed hearing one nature, and you wake up hearing a different nature ... The property is unique in that it combines being a hotel as well as a resort. Very few places can achieve such a dual purpose. So leisure and corporate guests can enjoy the same wonderful experience.”