{"id":34954,"date":"2005-12-03T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/12\/03\/beijings-marco-polo-parkside-hotel-hires-new-gm\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T16:01:49","slug":"beijings-marco-polo-parkside-hotel-hires-new-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/12\/03\/34954\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing's Marco Polo Parkside Hotel Hires New GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/051202-marcopolo-swanson.gif\" width=\"50\" align=\"right\">Eric Swanson has been appointed General Manager of the Marco Polo Parkside, Beijing, the group's second hotel in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An American national, Swanson is fluent in English, French and Spanish and had over 20 years experience working in hotel projects worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>He started his hotel career with Ritz Carlton in the United States where he was a key member of the corporate opening team. He then moved on as Director of Sales  and  Marketing for The Ritz-Carlton in Seoul, Korea. He was promoted as General Manger responsible for the openings of numerous Ritz-Carlton hotels in destinations including Palm Beach and Miami in the United States and South Sinai in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson was most recently General Manager of The Leela Palace Kempinski Hotel, Bangalore, India.<\/p>\n<p>With 330 rooms, the Marco Polo Parkside is located 600 meters from the entrance to the Olympic Park, venue of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Swanson has been appointed General Manager of the Marco Polo Parkside, Beijing, the group's second hotel in Beijing.<\/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-34954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954","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=34954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}