Executive changes for Kempinski Hotels & Resorts

Kempinski Hotels & Resorts has announced the following series of transfers and appointments at some of its hotels around the world.

Transfers

Elmar Greif is returning as general manager to the Kempinski Hotel Gravenbruch Frankfurt after completing his contract at the Grand Hotel Europe in St Petersburg.

Torsten Dressler, former general manager of the Kempinski Resort Hotel Bel Air Binz on the German island of Ruegen, has been appointed general manager of the new Kempinski Hotel Shenyang in China.

Harald Peters, presently general manager of the Kempinski Hotel Gravenbruch in Frankfurt, has been appointed general manager of the new Kempinski Hotel Amman in Jordan.

New Appointments

Henri Raymond Blin joins Kempinski as general manager of the Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg. Henri is French and his last position was regional vice president operations for the Intercontinental Hotels Group in the United Arab Emirates.

Karim El Ghazzawi, a Swiss citizen, has been appointed general manager of the new Kempinski Giardino di Costanza Grand Hotel & Spa in Sicily. He was previously resident manager at the Beach Rotana Hotel & Towers in Abu Dhabi.

Arild H. Sjodin joins as general manager of the Kempinski Resort Hotel Bel Air Binz. Before joining Kempinski, Norwegian-born Sjodin was general manager of the Park Hotel Ridzene in Riga, Latvia.