08. Peter Fulton, Group President, Europe, Africa, Middle East and South West Asia, Hyatt
With a pipeline that has grown one-and-a-half times in the last 12 months, the US hotelier is looking at introducing more properties under its newly launched brands
Hyatt has been busy over the last 12 months, signing new contract agreements and bolstering its pipeline significantly (24 hotels in the pipeline). The group, under the guidance of Peter Fulton, group president, Europe, Africa, Middle East and South West Asia, has also added four new operational properties — up from 10 last year to 14.
Globally, Hyatt has launched two new brands, Hyatt House and Hyatt Centric. Fulton says the brands could soon make their Middle East debut. Of the GCC countries, Fulton’s sights are on Kuwait, where the company is set to make massive strides.
Elsewhere in the GCC, Hyatt is set to open the Grand Hyatt in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. A Hyatt Regency is scheduled for Riyadh by Q4 2016, and a couple of Hyatt Places and Hyatt Houses will also spring up between Riyadh and Jeddah.
Fulton says employees are at the core of the group’s goals. “Over the last one year, I was fortunate to be the regional leader tasked with changing how we operate our hotels. With the help of my HR colleagues and teams across our hotels and corporate offices in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South West Asia, we connected with each of our hotels and helped them understand how to embed our purpose into every guest experience, every partnership, and every colleague interaction.”
He adds: “Globally, our mission is to become a company led by a single, unifying purpose. At Hyatt we believe that ‘we exist to care for people so they can be their best’. It’s been at the root of why our colleagues join Hyatt and why they remain with the Hyatt family, and it is also what we have brought to our guests for more than 50 years.”
By the numbers:
3 Number of years in role
34 Number of years with company
14 Number of Middle East operating hotels
24 Number of Middle East pipeline hotels
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