InterContinental Hotels Group, the world's largest hotel operator, announced today that Monjed Salha has been appointed Area Revenue Manager for the Northern Gulf.
In the new role, the British manager – who speaks English and Arabic – aims to improve profitability levels at InterContinental Hotels Group’s properties in the Northern Gulf region. Focusing on promoting the group’s high-standard hotel rooms and conference facilities, Salha also aims to apply systems processes that deliver best practice operations.
“For more than a decade I have been committed to ensuring the on-going development of my career and it is wonderful to have been appointed to this senior management position with InterContinental Hotels Group,” said Salha.
“My family and I are enjoying being based in Kuwait, and I look forward to the challenge ahead of me.”
Having entered the hospitality industry in 1993, Salha has accelerated consistently through the ranks and moves to this senior position from his previous posting with InterContinental Hotels Group as Executive Assistant Manager, responsible for sales and marketing, at the Crowne Plaza Bahrain. Before joining InterContinental Hotels Group in 2000, Salha worked for leading hotel group’s properties in the UK.
With a passion for reading and travelling, the married man – with two children, Daniel, 5, and Adam, 2 – looks forward to further enhancing InterContinental Hotels Group’s position as the largest multi-branded hotel operator in the Middle East.
Commenting on Salha’s appointment, Denis Johnson, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, InterContinental Hotels Group, Middle East and Africa, said: “For more than five years, Monjed has shown commitment to ensuring the growth of InterContinental Hotels Group in the Middle East. I am pleased to see his development into this role and wish him the very best.”
As the largest hotel operator in the Middle East, InterContinental Hotels Group has more than 70 InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn properties across the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Kenya, Eritrea, Zambia and Gabon.
About InterContinental Hotels Group
InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn hotels across the region can be booked with toll-free calls to the InterContinental Hotels Group Middle East Central Reservations Office in Bahrain (80000 880), Egypt (0800-4433322), Jordan (0800-22666), Kuwait (473 2100 ext 6233), Lebanon (01 426-801 - ask operator to connect to 866 866 7556), Oman (800 777 999), Pakistan (00800 909 71005), Qatar (0800 971234), Saudi Arabia (800 897 1465), and the UAE (800 4642).
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. InterContinental Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, more than 3,500 hotels and 535,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites® and Hotel IndigoTM, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club® Rewards, with over 25 million members worldwide. In addition to this, InterContinental Hotels Group has a 47.5% interest in Britvic, one of the two leading manufacturers of soft drinks, by value and volume, in Great Britain. InterContinental Hotels Group offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ichotelsgroup.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from InterContinental Hotels Group, visit our online Press Office at www.ihgplc.com/media
