Carmen Mauthner is the new general manager of the 141-room Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga, Latvia, and Kai Behrens is the new general manager of the 225-room Kempinski Hotel Frankfurt Gravenbruch.

Appointed by management firm Cycas Hospitality as general manager of the 161-room Bankside Hotel in London.

Promoted to CFO at IHG Hotels & Resorts, to start next March. He currently is CFO, The Americas, and group head of commercial finance.

Named as general manager of the Fairmont St Andrews in Scotland. He joined the hotel firm in 2016 and has been general manager of its Fairmont Quasar, Istanbul; Fairmont Moscow; Fairmont The Palm, Dubai, and, until now, the Fairmont Golden Prague.

Northern Ireland hotel group Hastings Hotels has appointed Aileen Martin as group commercial director and Eoin McGrath, previously its luxury sales manager, as assistant sales director.

Founder and chairman of Arora Group Surinder Arora will step down as president of the United Kingdom hotel industry membership association, the Institute of Hospitality, at the end of the year.

Patrick Graham was appointed the new hotel manager at the 306-room Rosewood London. He was formerly at Nobu Hotel London Portman Square and The Bulgari Hotel & Residences.

Victor Krensler will be the debut general manager of the La Fonda Heritage Hotel in Marbella, Spain, which opens in January.

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