 PHUKET, 31 January 2011 – Outrigger Senior Vice President
Asia Pacific, Mr Darren Edmonstone, has appointed Mr Leon Pink as
General
Manager of the Outrigger Koh Samui Resort and Spa, effective
immediately.
Outrigger's new property on Koh Samui, the company's second in
Thailand, opens
on 1 February.
Pink, an Australian national, has 15 years' hotel operations
experience. Prior
to the Koh Samui appointment, Pink was Resort Manager for over two
years at the
Outrigger on the Lagoon Fiji, a five-star 254 room property. The Fiji
property
won an AON Fijian Tourism Excellence Award in 2009 for being the best
deluxe
property in Fiji.
Before joining Outrigger in 2008, Pink gained extensive experience with
the
Mantra Group of hotels on Australia's Sunshine Coast, and with resort
and city
hotels in Australia, Amsterdam and London, where he won the Employee of
the
Year Award at the Sanderson Hotel, London.
Commenting on the appointment, Edmonstone said: "Leon's excellent
frontline tropical holiday resort experience with Outrigger in Fiji
gives him
the right credentials to establish the new Outrigger Koh Samui Resort
and Spa
as a holidaymaker's favourite."
From 1 February, the 79-key luxury villa and suite Outrigger Koh Samui
Resort
and Spa will offer a range of accommodations including pool villas,
spacious
pool access suites and Beach Deco rooms. Guests will enjoy a full array
of
services and amenities, including a beachside restaurant, a Navasana
Wellness
Centre, a fitness centre, three swimming pools, including one absolute
beachfront pool, two bars, and a Kids' Club.
About Outrigger
Enterprises Group
Outrigger Enterprises Group is one of the largest and fastest growing
privately-held leisure lodging and hospitality companies in the Asia
Pacific
and Oceania regions and continues to expand its presence throughout the
area. A
family-owned company with more than 60 years of hospitality experience,
Outrigger
runs a highly-successful, multi-branded line of hotels, condominiums
and
vacation resort properties, including Outrigger® Hotels &
Resorts, OHANA®
Hotels & Resorts, Outrigger Condominium Collection®, Embassy
Suites®, Best
Western® and Wyndham Vacation Ownership®. Currently, Outrigger
operates and/or
has under development 42 properties with close to 11,000 rooms located
in
Hawaii, Australia, Guam, Fiji, Bali, Phuket, Thailand, Vietnam and
China.
Outrigger Enterprises Group also operates and develops hotel properties
and
hospitality-related retail and real estate opportunities for partners
in
Hawaii, the Pacific, the mainland USA and Asia. For on-line
information, log on
at www.outriggerenterprisesgroup.com and www.outrigger.com.
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