Apavou Hotets, Mauritius
Viraat Raj Bhalla has taken over as the director, north and east India for the Apavou Group of Hotels, a Franco-Mauritian enterprise. Prior to this he was with TRAC Representations for almost 10 years. Bhalla is all set to create a platform for Apavou products in the Indian travel market with new offices that are in the process of being opened in Delhi. Mumbai and Chennai.

Ascott Group of Serviced Apartments
Cameron Ong has been appointed chief executive officer of The Ascott Group. He has over 25 years of international experience in hospitality and was earlier the CEO, president and director of Somerset Holdings. Somerset Holdings merged with The Ascott Limited to form The Ascott Group in 2000.

The Claridges, New Delhi
Biswajit Chakravarty has been appointed as director of sales. He brings with him 10 years of experience in the industry. Earlier he has worked wIth The Leela Palaces & Resorts and Parkroyal InterContinental,New Delhi.

Conrad centennial, Singapore
Steven Ong Kok Kheng has joined the Conrad Centennial Singapore as the master pastry chef. Prior to this, he was at the InterContinental Singapore. Steven has earlier won the overall championship in the Regional Team Competition at Food & Hotel Asia in 1998 and has also epresented Singapore twice at the Coupe du Monde de la Patisserie in Lyon.

Federation of Hotels & Restaurant Association of India
M.P. Purushothaman has been elected President of the Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI), for 2004-05. The other members who have been selected as office bearers of FHRAI are Vivek Nair as the Honorary Secretary, Rajesh Mishra as the Honorary Treasurer and Dr. Sunil Gulati as the Joint Honorary Secretary. Purushothaman is also the President of the South India Hotels & Restaurants Association (SIHRA) for 2004-05.

The Fullerton, Singapore
Rodderich Leffler has been appointed the new executive assistant manager Food & Beverage. Prior to his current appointment, he was the director of Food and Beverage at the InterContinental Hotel in Jordan. With over 15 years of experience, Leffler will oversee and direct all aspects of food and beverage operations of the hotel.

Hilton Colombo
Christopher C. Doyle has joined Hilton Colombo as director Business Development. Prior to this he was director of International Sales -India at the Hilton India office where he handled outbound travel from India to 2,600 Hilton hotels worldwide, managing distribution channels, communication and reservations.

InterContinental Group
Rajiv Sharma has been appointed director of Development, Southwest Asia. Prior to his current appointement he was Area Development director for Aman Resorts where he played a key role in its regional strategy deployment. In his present position, Sharma will be based in New Delhi and will oversee hotel development efforts for the group's brands including illterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn in Southwest Asia.

InterContinental The Grand, Mumbai
Aditya Mata has been appointed as the resident manager. Earlier he has worked with various leading hotels like the Oberoi Hotels, ShangriLa Village Resort. The Grand Ashok.

Millennium & CopthorneHotels & Resorts
Roselyn Chan has taken over as vice president, Global Market Development. Before joining the Millennium & Copthome Hotel Group she was at Visa International. Roselyn's role in M&C will encompass developing a unique M&C loyalty programme and forging new strategic marketing initiatives with suitable industry partners.

Sarovar Park Plaza, Mumbai Ankur Dhar has been promoted to regional sales manager having enhanced responsibilities of sales and marketing in northern India inclusive of all Web and GDS marketing.

The Outab, New Delhi
Vilas Pawar has joined The Qutab Hotel & Apartments, New Delhi as CEO and general manager. Before this he was associated with Hyatt Regency, New Delhi asassistant director, F&B. Pawar is also responsible for the successful introduction of TGI Friday's in India.

Sarovar Park Plaza Hotels
Krishna Patel has been promoted as Public Relations Manager. She is responsible for corporate communications, advertising and marketing co-ordinations for the company and all group hotels, resorts and restaurants, within the chain. Prior to SPPH she worked with WAN Public Relations affiliated with J. Walter Thompson.

Select Hotels
Mamta Pall has been appointed as the general manager-business development. She brings with her 10 years of experience in the industry. Prior to this she was working with Outbound Marketing as general manager.

Select Hotels
Manisha Sharma has been promoted as general manager- sales and marketing (north India); she will be based in Delhi. Previously she was Looking after marketing for Select Hotels properties-The Heritage Village. Manesar and The Heritage Club. Goa.

TCI hyderabad
Neal Rogers has been promoted to Sales manager - Travel at TCI Hyderabad. He had joined TCI as a trainee in 1990. Roger's rich experience over the last 14 years will be an asset to the company.

The Club Mumbai
Tushar Khanna is the new operations manager at The Club, Mumbai. He graduated from Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration, New York He did his summer training at Hotel Inter-Continental, Singapore and The Oberoi Towers, Mumbai.

The Grand New Delhi
Chef Vito Froio has joined The Grand New Delhi as their Executive Sous Chef. Prior to this he has worked at the Crowne Plaza, Dubai, Sheraton, Beijing and Le Meridien, Dubai besides many others. The Chef specialises in Italian cuisine and is proficient in other European cuisine too.

United Holidays, Sri Lanka
Suresh Murugaser has been appointed executive director - Operations at United Holidays in Sri Lanka. Before this he has worked with Aitken Spence Travels and Tour East, Jetset Tours, Pacific & International Travel Company, Marriott and Serendib Group of Hotels. Here, Murugaser will be responsible for day-to-day operations within the inbound division of the company.

Hyatt Regency Mumbai
Jiri Kobos is the new general manager. He has 25 years experience in the field of hospitality. Before joining Hyatt Regency Mumbai he set up and managed the Arafat Park Hyatt Moscow.

Hyatt Regency Mumbai
Deepak Bhatia is the new executive chef of Hyatt Regency. He has been with Hyatt International for the past 10 years. Before this appointment, Bhatia was the executive chef of Hyatt Regency Kolkata.

Hyatt Regency Mumbai
Jaime Footner is the new director of Rooms. Prior to her appointment she was executive manager at Como Melbourne and now joins Hyatt Regency Mumbai after successfu11y opening the Sebel Residence in Perth.

InterContinental The Grand, New Delhi
Sonia Khanna has joined The Grand Group as manager HR - Corporate. She was previously the Human Resources Manager with Uppal's Orchid, New Delhi. She will be responsible for all the seven properties under the group.

InterContinental The Grand, New Delhi
Sunil Datta Vashista is the new Front Office manager. Oberoi and The Metropolitan Hotel He was previously associated with The Nikko in New Delhi.