Swiss-Belhotel International has appointed Alban Dutemple as the general manager of Swiss-Belhotel Seef Bahrain, taking on the role after the outgoing GM Herve Peyre.
He has more than three-and-a-half decades of experience in the hospitality industry. Out of this, his longest stint was with the Accor Group where he spent nearly 19 years serving various hotels in different capacities.
A French national, Dutemple entered the hospitality industry as chef de partie at a Michelin-star restaurant in France in 1978. He moved to Mexico in 1993 joining the Hotel Nikko in Mexico City as executive chef.
In 1997, Dutemple took up the role of the executive chef at the Sheraton Maria Isabel in Mexico City. He moved to Brazil in 1999 as the food and beverage director of Sheraton Rio De Janeiro. In 2001. he returned to Paris with the position of food and beverage director of Sofitel Paris Porte De Sevres.
In 2004, Dutemple took his first role in the Middle East moving to Dubai as resident manager of Sofitel City Centre Hotel & Residence. In 2006, he was assigned the responsibility of hotel opening project manager for Accor Middle East. In 2008, Alban was promoted to the position of VP F&B Sofitel for Africa, Middle East & Indian Ocean.
In 2009 he went back to Brazil as the general manager of Sofitel Rio De Janeiro Copacabana. After three years he returned back to his home country in 2012 as VP F&B for Pullman Europe & Worldwide strategy based in Paris.
Dutemple left the Accor Group in 2014 to join as general manager at Leylaty Catering and Restaurants Group in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where he stayed until December 2017.
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