Langham Hospitality Group has appointed Vivienne
Gan to the newly created position of Vice President of Public
Relations.
In her role, Ms Gan is responsible for all public
relations matters pertaining to the hotel group, including
publicizing the corporate brand messages, handling crisis
communications and media training, and enhancing the profiles of
the group's portfolio of brands.
Ms Gan has 20 years experience in the luxury
hospitality and media industries; most recently, she headed the
global public relations division at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts,
overseeing PR initiatives for the groups hotels over three
brands.
Prior to that, she was with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
as the regional director of public relations, Middle East and Africa. She also served as the director of public relations with
The Ritz-Carlton hotels in Bahrain and Singapore.
Ms Gan
was also the director of communications at the former Kahala
Mandarin Oriental in Hawaii from 2002 to 2005. She was posted to
the Aloha State from her previous role as head of the corporate
public relations at Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts.
Ms Gan started
her media and public relations career as an on-air broadcast
journalist specializing in travel and food stories at Mediacorp TV
Singapore.
Ms Gan holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) in
Communication Management from University of South Australia and a
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English from York University in
Toronto, Canada. She is currently based in Hong Kong at the
corporate office.
Langham,
VP,
Vice President,
Hong Kong
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