Phil Richards to Head Up Sales & Marketing for Accor for Western Australia and Northern Territory

Australia (PRWEB) December 13, 2007

Accor announced the appointment of Phil Richards to the position of Regional Director of Sales and Marketing for Western Australia and Northern Territory.

Phil commenced working for Accor in 1990, when he completed a hotel traineeship at Novotel Langley Hotel Perth. He then relocated to the newly re-branded Mercure Inn Overland Kalgoorlie, as Assistant Manager from 1994 - 96.

Returning to Perth in 1996 he was Executive Assistant Manager at the then Princes Hotel, which became the Hotel Ibis Perth, where he became General Manager in 2000.

Phil will commence his new role on 14th January 2008 and will be based in the Accor Regional Sales Office at the Mercure Hotel Perth.

Accor is the largest hotel group in Western Australia with ___ hotels located from Albany in the south to Broome in the north.

Accor, the European leader and a major global group in hotels, the global leader in services to corporate clients and public institutions, operates in nearly 100 countries with 170,000 employees. It offers to its clients over 40 years of expertise in its two core businesses:

• Hotels, with the Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, All Seasons, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6 brands, representing more than 4,000 hotels and nearly 500,000 rooms in 90 countries, as well as strategically related activities, such as Lenôtre.
• Services, with 23 million people in nearly 40 countries benefiting from Accor Services products in human resources, marketing services and expense management.

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