Doha - Abdul Aziz Al Emadi has been officially appointed as General Manager for the Sharq Village & Spa in Doha. The luxury waterfront property is operated by Ritz-Carlton hotel company B V and is due to open March 10.
Al Emadi brings over 16 years of hospitality experience to the role and prior to his appointment was a key member of the Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee as Accommodations Advisor.
A Qatari national, Al Emadi is a graduate of the Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management in Salzburg, Austria. He began his career as a management trainee with the Sheraton Hotel, Doha, and rose swiftly through the ranks to head up the hotel's sales and marketing team which became the highest revenue generating hotel for the chain in the Middle East.
His first general manager position was with the Al Sadd, Merweb Hotel the first hotel to be managed by Qatar National Hotels Company, in 2002. Al Emadi used his strategic positioning expertise and dynamic character to achieve significant results in the hotel's annual customer satisfaction surveys.
A board member of Doha's National Projects & General Services Company and former chairman of the hotel association, he is delighted to be heading up the dedicated team at Sharq Village & Spa. Commenting on the hotel's imminent opening, he said, "Sharq Village & Spa has been a passionate collaborative project of architecture, history and design, to provide guests with a culturally unique and luxuriously authentic experience. I am delighted to be part of the opening team of such a unique property, with such a talented group of ladies and gentlemen."
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