Nigel R. Edwards has been appointed general manager of Hotel Equatorial Qingdao.

Edwards has twenty years of diverse hospitality experience, with strength in financial analysis, marketing and team building. Edwards started his career at White Heron Hotel Auckland, New Zealand in 1979 and had worked in various locations throughout Europe for nearly 10 years. He joined Millennium & Copthorne as executive assistant manager of Copthorne Harbourcity Hotel Auckland in 2000 and was promoted to general manager of Kinsgate Hotel Parnell in 2002 and then general manager of Copthorne Hotel Wellington and Corpthorne Hotel Christchurch Central.