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LANGHAM HOTELS INTERNATIONAL APPOINTS GERILYN HORAN AS DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL SALES – NORTH AMERICA
(Hong Kong – 1 August 2005) ----- Langham Hotels International is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Gerilyn Horan as Director of Global Sales – North America heading up the group's global sales office in New York.
With over 17 years of sales experience in the hospitality industry, Ms. Horan has held both property and global sales positions including The Waldorf-Astoria, Four Seasons (based in New York) and Hilton Corporation (based in San Francisco), accumulating a wealth of experience in the North American market. During her career, Ms. Horan has represented properties located in North America, Europe, Asia and South Pacific. Prior to joining Langham, she was Director of National Sales for Wyndham International, representing their hotels and luxury resorts based in San Francisco.
As Director of Global Sales – North America for Langham Hotels International, Ms. Horan will lead the sales team to maximize the group's reach in the North American market, through capturing business from key market segments into Langham hotels worldwide. Her position will also help to enhance the brand presence for Langham Hotels International in the region.
Background Notes:
Langham Hotels International (LHI) is a dynamic, modern hospitality ownership and management company which operates the luxury Langham Hotels brand and other hospitality interests in prime locations within Hong Kong and overseas.
LHI is wholly owned by the publicly listed Great Eagle Holdings Limited (HKSE: 41), which was founded in 1963 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972.
The Great Eagle Group is one of Hong Kong's leading property and hotel companies. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the Group develops, invests in and manages high quality office, retail, residential and hotel properties in Hong Kong, North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Its commercial property holdings include 2.36 million square feet of Grade-A office space in the prime commercial districts of Hong Kong. In the United States, it owns three office buildings with a total floor area of 685,000 square feet.
In the fourth quarter of 2004, the Group opened Langham Place, a 1.8 million square feet complex in the prime shopping district of Mongkok, Hong Kong. It consists of a 600,000 square feet shopping mall, a 770,000 square feet intelligent office tower and the five-star Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok, Hong Kong .
LHI's extensive international hotel portfolio currently comprises eight properties with over 4,760 rooms in six gateway cities across the four continents, namely, London, Boston, Hong Kong, Toronto, Melbourne and Auckland.
In Hong Kong, LHI owns, manages and operates the luxury 490-room Langham Hotel, Hong Kong, the all new 665-room five-star Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok, Hong Kong, and the newly refurbished four-star 468-room Eaton Hotel Hong Kong. Internationally, it owns and operates four luxury hotels, including the 429-room Langham Hotel, London, the 325-room Langham Hotel, Boston, the 387-room Langham Hotel, Melbourne, the 410-room Langham Hotel, Auckland. In Canada, LHI owns and asset manages the four-star 1,590-room Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto.
Under the ownership and management of LHI, five Langham Hotels, namely the Langham Hotel, London, the Langham Hotel, Boston, the Langham Hotel, Hong Kong, the Langham Hotel, Melbourne and the Langham Hotel, Auckland, are accredited by the prestigious “The Leading Hotels of the World” being some of the world's finest luxury hotels.
LHI's Hong Kong portfolio also comprises three Eaton House furnished apartment buildings and two Yat Tung Heen Chinese Restaurants.
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For media enquiries, please contact:
Sherona Shng
Director of Public Relations
Langham Hotels International
Tel: (852) 3552 3938
Fax: (852) 3552 3902
Email: sherona.shng@langhamhotels.com |
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