Herve Peyre appointed Swiss-Belhotel's area GM for Bahrain

Swiss-Belhotel International (SBI) has promoted Herve Peyre to be the company's area general manager for Bahrain, from the position of general manager for Swiss-Belhotel Seef Bahrain.

“We are delighted to promote Herve Peyre as the area general manager for Bahrain where he, with his team, has so successfully positioned Swiss-Belhotel Seef Bahrain as a market leader and winner of several accolades including the ‘Best Four-Star Hotel in GCC’ at the Food & Travel Awards for two consecutive years, 2016 to 2017," said  Laurent A. Voivenel, Swiss-Belhotel International senior vice president, operations and development for the Middle East, Africa and India. 

Laurent added:“This latest development is part of our strategy to strengthen our management team in key growth markets such as Bahrain where we have extensive expansion. We will be tripling our inventory of rooms in the Kingdom this year with the opening of two new hotels early next year, namely, Grand Swiss-Belresort, a five-star luxury resort and Seef Swiss-Belresidences Juffair, an upper mid-scale hotel apartment complex.”

An MBA graduate from Cornell University in Paris, Peyre began his career in 1993 as assistant food and beverage manager at Hilton Paris. He subsequently spent 18 years with Hilton Hotels & Resorts working in various senior executive roles. His last posting with the Hilton group was as general manager of Hilton Strasbourg in 2011. Prior to joining Swiss-Belhotel Seef Bahrain, where he had been working since September 2013, Peyre was the cluster general manager for Flora Creek & Flora Park Deluxe Hotel Apartments in Dubai.