{"id":35042,"date":"2005-12-27T23:22:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/12\/27\/best-western-appoints-new-vp\/"},"modified":"2005-12-27T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T15:22:38","slug":"best-western-appoints-new-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/12\/27\/35042\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Western Appoints New VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/bestwestern_logo.gif\" width=\"65\" align=\"right\">Best Western International has promoted Glenn de Souza to Vice President of International Operations, Asia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his new role, de Souza will be responsible for the management, development and expansion of the Best Western brand throughout Asia and will work closely with William Dong, the Chief Representative for Greater China who oversees the branding efforts in China.<\/p>\n<p>He will continue his sales and marketing responsibilities for the region.<\/p>\n<p>De Souza will report to Best Western President and CEO David Kong.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly 30 years of hotel experience, de Souza most recently served as Best Western's Managing Director for Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Since October 2003, he has led development as well as sales and marketing efforts for the region while supervising the implementation of member support programs and services.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the company in April 2002, de Souza held numerous managerial positions with such brands as Accor, Omni Hotels, Sheraton and Holiday Inn International.<\/p>\n<p>He is based in Bangkok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Western International has promoted Glenn de Souza to Vice President of International Operations, Asia.<\/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-35042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042","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=35042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}