{"id":6632,"date":"2008-06-18T05:28:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2008-06-18T05:28:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T21:28:40","slug":"le-royal-meridien-shanghai-hires-new-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2008\/06\/18\/6632\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Royal Meridien Shanghai Hires New GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-full wp-image-6633\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Keith Hardie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/080617-leroyalmersh-hardie.gif\" alt=\"Keith Hardie\" width=\"50\" height=\"75\" \/>Keith Hardie has been appointed general manager of Le Royal Meridien Shanghai.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hardie will be responsible for all aspects of Le Royal Meridien Shanghai operations, enhancing employee development, guest satisfaction, strategic planning and brand recognition. A 31-year hotel industry veteran, Keith Hardie has been with Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts for 14 years, most recently at The Westin Grande Sukhumvit in Bangkok as general manager. Prior to Mr. Hardie's career with Starwood, he held management positions at Muscat Inter-Continental Hotel, Shangri-la's Fijian Resort, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Manila and The London Marriott Hotel at Grosvenor Square.<\/p>\n<p>Hardie was educated in Britain from where he gained his tertiary-level qualifications from both Newport College of Arts and Technology and Ealing College. He began his career as a Graduate Management trainee with Trust House Forte in 1977 and received his first overseas posting to Dubai 29 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Hardie has been appointed general manager of Le Royal Meridien Shanghai.<\/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":[12950,13967,13304,15604,13152,14688,12764,12880,18089],"class_list":["post-6632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-bangkok","tag-britain","tag-le-royal-meridien","tag-le-royal-meridien-shanghai","tag-london","tag-manila","tag-shanghai","tag-starwood","tag-sukhumvit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632","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=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}