The Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai has appointed Julius T Santos as its new Director of Marketing.

A veteran with the group, Mr. Santos brings with him a wealth of over 20 years experience in hospitality and travel sales and marketing. Mr. Santos, an American Filipino, started his career as Director of Sales Administration with a destination management company where he was involved in tour and travel operations for incentive groups to Hawaii and coordination of sales efforts in nine cities based out of San Francisco from 1975 to 1982.

His career in the hospitality industry began when he joined the Inter-Island Resorts, Hawaii Sales Office based in San Francisco in 1982.  A year later, he moved to Inter-Continental Hotels in San Francisco as Regional Director of Sales where he worked for four years.  He joined The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose in 1987 and he was transferred to The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco in 1989.  Mr. Santos moved to The Ritz-Carlton, Mauna Lani in 1991 and then The Ritz Carlton Rancho Mirage in 1993.

From the United States, Mr. Santos moved to Indonesia when he joined Four Seasons Resort at Bukit Sentul, Jakarta in 1995.  A year later he was transferred to Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta (formerly The Regent Jakarta) where he worked for five years. He was then posted to The Regent Kuala Lumpur (a Four Seasons Hotel), his last posting prior to moving to Shanghai. In his new capacity, Mr. Santos will be responsible for the hotel's sales, public relations, catering sales and reservations departments – all working towards achieving the hotel's revenue objectives.