{"id":34383,"date":"2005-03-02T07:31:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T23:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/03\/02\/sorenson-gets-gm-post-in-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2005-03-02T07:31:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T23:31:35","slug":"sorenson-gets-gm-post-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/03\/02\/34383\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorenson Gets GM Post In Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/20050203-meridien-sorenson.gif\" width=\"50\" align=\"right\">Le M\u00e9ridien Hotels  and  Resorts has announced the appointment of Kenneth Sorensen as General Manager of Le M\u00e9ridien Cyberport, Hong Kong. Kenneth will spearhead the business and growth of Hong Kong's only south-side hotel with a key focus on driving revenue, grow market share and further strengthen the hotel's strategic positioning as Hong Kong's chic 5-star business hotel.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kenneth began his hospitality career in 1990 with Hilton International and spent the following 7 years in a variety of senior sales  and  marketing roles in the Benelux before joining Swissotel Hotels  and  Resorts in Switzelerland at the Montreux Palace, and was later promoted to Vice President Sales and Marketing Asia\/Pacific, Swissotel Hotels and Resorts.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Le M\u00e9ridien Hotels  and  Resorts in 2001 as Resident Manager at Le M\u00e9ridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort in Bali, Kenneth crossed into operations and today processes the rare blend of both sales  and  marketing as well as an operational career. In February 2003 he was appointed General Manager of Le M\u00e9ridien Tahiti where during his tenure the hotel was repositioned within its market and moved from 3rd to 1st position in market share.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth a graduate from the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne in Switzerland holds a degree in hotel management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le M\u00e9ridien Hotels and Resorts has announced the appointment of Kenneth Sorensen as General Manager of Le M\u00e9ridien Cyberport, Hong Kong. Kenneth will spearhead the business and growth of Hong Kong's only south-side hotel with a key focus on driving revenue, grow market share and further strengthen the hotel's strategic positioning as Hong Kong's chic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}