The Phuket Hotels Association, a non-profit organisation representing 82 of the island’s top hotels and resorts, has continued to empower and upskill hospitality professionals in Phuket by joining forces with the prestigious EHL Hospitality Business School to award online educational scholarships to three exceptional young candidates.As part of its commitment to the development of local talent, the association will financially support associates from three of its member hotels in Phuket to take five-week courses in Leadership, Finance and Revenue.
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Outrigger Resorts & Hotels has appointed Michael Gaarde-Nielsen General Manager and Rory Campbell Director of Sales and Marketing for the Outrigger Mauritius Beach Resort.
Outrigger welcomes back a familiar face in Rory Campbell to oversee sales and marketing for the resort. Campbell will be responsible for the development and implementation of internal and external sales and marketing strategies and related plans to maximise the resort s revenue market share and optimise profitability for all source markets. With several years of Outrigger experience, Campbell was Area Director of Sales and Marketing for the former Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach and Outrigger Koh Samui Beach Resorts; Director of Sales and Marketing for the Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach Resort; and General Manager of the Outrigger Koh Samui Beach Resort. Before joining Outrigger in 2013, Campbell worked in senior sales and marketing roles for Hilton in Spain, Anantara Hotels and Resorts in Thailand and the Eaton Hotel in Hong Kong. Campbell is a Bachelor of Commerce graduate from Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.
PHIST (Phuket Hotels for Islands Sustaining Tourism), Southeast Asia’s biggest and best responsible travel and hospitality forum, returned on Monday 26th September to deliver a knockout blow to unsustainable tourism in Southeast Asia! Back as a live, in-person gathering, this fast-paced event tackled the key topics impacting the region and supported the green recovery of hotels and tourism operators following the global pandemic.Hosted at ACES, Angsana Laguna Phuket, the theme of this year’s PHIST was Muay Thai, the high-energy, culturally-rich sport of Thai boxing, which has gained fame and popularity around the world and represents the battle to preserve authentic art, heritage and tradition. Muay Thai fighters from Australia, Brazil, Thailand and the USA faced off in the main hall of ACES on Monday in a series of “super fights”.