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With a father in the military, the Paris-based Emlyn Brown attended 13 schools over 18 years. During high school in Munich, he traveled constantly with his family, from Italy to Cyprus and Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Manchester in the UK with a degree in leisure and sport, and furthered his education in the field by studying sport science and psychology. That led him to his first job with Holmes Place, a health, fitness, and wellness concept, which Brown describes as the Equinox of the '90s. His seven-year journey there took him from the sales floor to eventually becoming the area director for Europe. Today, his résumé is a who’s who of gamechanging wellness brands, including Six Senses, GOCO Hospitality, Resense Spa, and currently Accor, where he serves as the global senior vice president of wellbeing. Here, Brown explains how if wellbeing is done right, it can create a sense of community.

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Our LUXURY VOICE today is Gary Rosen, Chief Executive Officer, Accor Greater China. He has been responsible for Greater China for more than fifteen years and is known for his expertise in strategy formulation and creative revenue generation, combined with a passion for innovation and transformation. Prior to joining Accor as Chairman and Chief Operating Officer for Accor Greater China in September 2018, Gary was Chief Operating Officer of The Bicestor Village Shopping Collection, a chain of the world’s most unique and preferred luxury retail shopping destinations in China and Europe. Accor is a world leading hospitality group consisting of more than 5,200 properties and 10,000 food and beverage venues throughout 110 countries. In this episode Joanne and Gary talk about Accor’s strong development in China during the pandemic, sustainability, lifestyle hospitality leadership and more. An exciting episode full of positivity, confidence in the future of China tourism industry and exclusive announcements on LUXURY VOICES!

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In the world of premium and luxury hotels where high-touch used to equate high levels of service excellence, how does Ahmed Disokey, VP of Hotel Technology, AccorInvest, address hospitality’s new challenges – and continue to delight every guest? He shares on the group’s digital transformation, the shift towards contactless, and the role of payments in simplifying complex processes for the world’s leading hospitality group.

A graduate of the Glion Institute of Switzerland, he holds the Glion spirit with pride. Our next memory maker started life, following a two-year stint with Accor, as a young entrepreneur forming Forte Holding before co-founding the Utopian Hotel Collection. He grew up in Beirut, studied in Switzerland and lives in London.

Listen to Ronald Homsy’s hilarious experience of staying with an Airbnb landlord who disappeared for 48 hours and the moments that he has had a profound reflection on his life.

Our Memory Makers choose three photographs and a treasured souvenir of places or people from their travels. The four represent moments of particular importance to them, whether personally or professionally. They take us on a journey, reflecting on the significance of a specific moment in time, the sentiment of the period, and what was going on in the world around us.

Produced by Travel Market Life, a Haynes MarComs series. Hosted and sponsored by Atomize.

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The Accor hotels group's chief commercial officer for Northern Europe, Karelle Lamouche, tells BTN Europe's Andy Hoskins about the group's early observations on business travel recovery, the resilience of the SME sector, the return of small meetings, and how staff shortages are affecting the hospitality sector in the UK.

Lamouche also talks about the group's approach to negotiating new deals with corporates, having previously rolled rates over from 2020. "In 2021 we will be most probably going back into renegotiation of rates and RFPs with many corporates. We can see some further re-engagement and a sort of 'back to normal'," says Lamouche. With a lack of meaningful data, however, she cautions that volume and rate commitments will "be a big unknown, made with lots of assumptions. There will be some interesting exchanges." 

Avi Brosh was a successful real estate executive before he became passionate about hospitality.

But that shift into the hotel sector was not driven by a desire to create identikit properties at the budget end of the market or, indeed, identikit properties for the upscale market.

Palisociety was formed with design at the heart of everything it does, from the location and architecture to ancillaries and furnishings.

In short, Brosh is obsessed with the design aspects of his portfolio of hotels - whether they are owned outright or part of a management agreement.

He's not your typical hotel executive nor a startup entrepreneur of the Silicon Valley variety.

Brosh joins us at the latest guest on How I Got Here.

HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.

It's hosted by PhocusWire's editor in chief, Kevin May, and Mozio co-founder and CEO David Litwak.

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Jeanne talks with Caro van Eekelen - Senior Vice President of Talent & Culture & Transformation of Accor Hotels. They discussed the Transformation Journey that they undertook in more than 100 countries and over 250.000 people. Listen to their learnings, their inspiration on how to cause a global transformation.

With Caro Van Eekelen as our special Guest! Here is her Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/caro-van-eekelen-7147492

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