Royal Demeure relocates to London
Royal Demeure Hotel Group has moved its head office from Rome to new offices in Belgravia, London, and appointed a new senior team.
The Italian luxury hotel group said the move will help it expand its collection of six hotels, which includes the Hotel d’Inghilterra in Rome.
Professor Luigi De Simone Niquesa, CEO of the group’s parent company TDA Capital Group, has relocated to London and will head up a newly-appointed team.
The team includes group sales and marketing director Greg Ward, chief financial officer Colin Castelino, and marketing and communications manager Charlotte Gray.
Castelino spent 11 years with Deloittes before joining the Cliveden Group and was more recently financial director for the ESPA Group.
Charlotte Gray joins from the Pall Mall private members’ club, The Royal Automobile Club, and Singaporean-owned COMO Hotels and Resorts.
Ward has worked for Westin Hotels & Resorts, Rafael Hotels and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and more recently with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, the von Essen hotel Collection and Clarenco.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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