Lynne Bellinger joins Marriott as director of dining experiences

Lynne Bellinger has joined Marriott International as director of dining experiences for the Middle East & Africa region.

At her new role, Bellinger will be tasked with designing and maintaining the Marriott dining club programme, helping to develop and deploy F&B strategy across the portfolio, adapting and deploying brand initiatives, sourcing third party restaurant operators, and working with the F&B marketing on promotions and PR campaigns.

Bellinger, who has been in the region for 25 years, has a hotelier background having worked with Starwood Hotels & Resorts and One&Only. She also is an entrepreneur, and has been running her own companies for the past 15 years. She founded recruitment specialists The Hospitality Company, as well as Purple Cubed UAE, and more recently Purple Hospitality.

She has also been a judge for both the Hotelier Middle East Awards and the Caterer Middle East Awards.