Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific has appointed Rummy Anand as Regional Director of Sales, where his core responsibility will be to drive revenue for all of Carlson's hotels across the Asia Pacific region.

Based in the Singapore offices of Carlson Hotels, Anand, who brings more than 20 years experience to the role, will oversee the Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific sales organization.

In the past two decades, Anand has held various senior sales and marketing roles for a variety of international hotel brands including InterContinental, Holiday Inn and Hyatt Regency. He has been a part of the Carlson family since 2003, having previously held the position of Regional Director, Sales and Marketing for Carlson Hotels in India where he was responsible for overseeing all marketing and sales activity across the country.

Prior to joining Carlson, Anand held the position of Regional Director, South West Asia, InterContinental Hotels Group, where he was responsible for overseeing all sales, marketing and communications activities for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and managed a team of 20 people.

Paul Kirwin, president, Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific, said, The current hotel market is extremely buoyant and it is an exciting time for Rummy to come on board with Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific. Particularly in China, we are seeing exponential growth with several new hotels due to open in the coming months and Rummy's strong background in the industry makes him a very valuable addition to the Carlson Hotels Asia Pacific team at this busy time.

Carlson Hotels has agreements in place for 23 hotels, currently under development and due to open by the end of 2007, to add to its current portfolio of 45 hotels and 9,593 rooms across the Asia Pacific region.