Thomas Huber from TIME Oak Hotel & Suites, was named IT Person of the Year 2012 - sponsored by Du - at last night's Hotelier Middle East Awards.
Huber scooped the tech whizz of the award at the glittering 1920's-themed event thanks to his incredible array of technological achievements.
Huber's past accolades include setting up IT networks in a range of prestigious hotels. In the past 12 months, he has undertaken one of his biggest challenges with new brand Time Hotels Management LLC and introduced a plethora of modern systems, from pushing through a cloud initiative to setting up a company-wide intranet, as well as managing the rebranding of the company website. He’s also replaced systems for the owning company and gone the extra mile by booking rooms and meetings business for the hotel, adding more than a million dirhams to hotel revenue.
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On picking up the award Huber said: "I am very surprised. What we do in our company at TIME hotels is just the normal bread and butter work, we don’t have super landmark propertoes with billon dollar budgets but we are failry innovative and that’s now being recognised. IT is expensive and we are trying to turn it around by introducing efficiency tools and managing processes. It looks like it has worked out."
Huber predicted that the big tech trend for the coming year woud be: "bring your own device - guests travel with their own devices today and many bring their own content and we have to cater to that."
Joe Tesfai, from Atlantis The Palm, Dubai was highly commended by the judges in this catagory.
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