HILBERATH APPOINTED GENERAL MANAGER OF CAIRO’S NEW INTER-CONTINENTAL AND HOLIDAY INN HOTELS

Six Continents Hotels has appointed Thomas Hilberath as general manager of the Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn hotels which are being built as part of Citystars Heliopolis, the $600 million landmark development at the heart of the Egyptian capital.

With 533 guest rooms, 184 deluxe suites and apartments, and 73 bungalows and chalets, the Heliopolis Inter-Continental Hotel opens in December 2002. Opening six months later, the Holiday Inn Heliopolis will offer 330 rooms and suites.

The two hotels provide the key accommodation element for business and leisure visitors to the Citystars complex, the largest of its kind in the Middle East, combining major retail shopping, entertainment, commercial office and residential facilities.

German-born Hilberath, 51, has 29 years’ experience in the hotel industry, the bulk of this gained while serving as general manager at Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotels in Germany, Botswana and South Africa.

From 1996-97 he was regional general manger for four Holdiday Inn hotels and one Crowne Plaza property in Hamburg. The following year he was preopening project manager for the Crowne Plaza Bucharest in Rumania. He has received frequent recognition for performance during his career.

The two new hotels are among nine new hotel properties currently under development in Egypt by Six Continents Hotels, which already operates three Inter-Continental hotels, one Crowne Plaza resort and three Holiday Inn resorts in the country.