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On 1 March, Omer Acar<\/strong> will take over as CEO of Raffles & Orient Express<\/strong>, a subsidiary of the Accor<\/strong> group. The world’s leading hotel operator is counting on this luxury hotel expert to help the two brands “establish their reputation around the world and pursue their international development”.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Based in New York, Omer Acar will report directly to S\u00e9bastien Bazin<\/strong>, Accor’s CEO, as part of the Luxury & Lifestyle Executive Committee. He will work closely with the General Managers of the other brands in this division. Finally, he will also be Accor’s representative on the North American market.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For Omer Acar, luxury, and in particular the hotel industry, holds no secrets. A triple graduate of the Hotel Institute of Montreux (Switzerland), Hawaii Pacific University and Cornell University (USA), he began his career with Four Seasons<\/strong> in the USA and Egypt. After a short foray into high-end retail in 2005 at Harrods<\/strong> in the UK as Group Director Food & Beverage<\/strong>, he quickly returned to his first love, taking over as General Manager of the Ritz<\/strong> in Paris in 2006 and then the Royal Monceau Raffles<\/strong> in 2011.\u00a0 Since 2014, he was managing director Europe and the Americas of the Katara Hospitality Group<\/strong>. He was in charge of 18 of the most prestigious establishments in the world, including the Plaza<\/strong> (New York), the Peninsula<\/strong> (Paris), the Carlton<\/strong> (Cannes), the Excelsior<\/strong> (Rome), and the Grosvenor House<\/strong> and the Savoy<\/strong> (London).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lire aussi >\u00a0Accor gets on the luxury track with the Orient Express<\/a><\/p>\nFrom Four Seasons to Plaza<\/h2>\n