{"id":4913,"date":"2007-10-26T05:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/10\/26\/4913-new-gm-at-swissotel-grand-shanghai\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T05:15:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T21:15:42","slug":"new-gm-at-swissotel-grand-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/10\/26\/4913\/","title":{"rendered":"New GM At Swissotel Grand, Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/071029-swissotelgrandsh-jones.gif\" title=\"Ian Jones\" alt=\"Ian Jones\" align=\"right\" \/>Ian Jones is the new general manager of Swissotel Grand, Shanghai, which is scheduled to open in spring 2008.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Shanghai, the Canadian-born general manager has enjoyed seven years of international hospitality experience, which also included the general manager post at the Swissotel Krasnye Holmy, Moscow. Jones though has a total of 23 years in the hotel and hospitality sector. Before joining Swissotel Hotels &amp; Resorts he worked two and a half years for the Hilton London Metropole as director of operations, followed by another two and a half years in the same position opening the new Hilton Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his international placements, his Canadian hotel career included positions as the hotel manager for the Sheraton-on-the-Falls, Niagara Falls; general manager of the Reunion Bar at the Toronto Sheraton Hotel &amp; Conference Center; and assistant banquet manager for the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Jones is the new general manager of Swissotel Grand, Shanghai, which is scheduled to open in spring 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913","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=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}