Hakan Ozel Hakan Ozel

Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai has appointed Hakan Ozel as the hotel's new general manager.

He will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the hotel including hotel rooms, serviced apartments and residences as well as the colleagues’ welfare.

Prior to his current appointment, he was the general manager at China World Summit Wing, a Shangri-La hotel in Beijing, China.

Ozel has more than 13 years of experience with the Shangri-La group, which has taken him to properties in Dalian, Shenzhen, Wenzhou, Tianjin and Beijing in China, Muscat in Sultanate of Oman and Jakarta in Indonesia.

Before joining the Shangri-La family, he held several positions at luxury hotels spanning China, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and his hometown in Turkey, where he started his career of 23 years in food and beverage management.

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