“I keep telling them ‘you know you need to be bold, you need to takes some risk in your life and put yourself outside of the comfort zone’. Challenge yourself and do it in your own way. You don’t need to be someone else but do it in a way you can do but don’t limit your goal or the highest ‘I will go’ because you never know,” she explains.
The hands-on collaborative mentorship, of course, she says extends to the rest of her team as well as they prepare to represent the first Hampton by Hilton property in the region.
She adds that the property will be an “an exciting entry” to the pool of Hilton properties in the region. “The fact that we are the largest Hampton and the first one in the UAE... I’m really excited and with the unique proposition of our value, we not only offer a premium product in the area, we are also offering complimentary breakfast to all our guests which is part of the Hampton brand,” she explains.
Guests can also choose from the à la carte options for lunch and dinner from the all-day dining restaurant on-site.The hotel also includes a temperature-controlled infinity edge pool and a fully equipped gym and also offers guests complimentary shuttles to DXB terminal 1, DAFZA, the historic districts of Old Dubai and Mamzar Beach.
The soon-to-open property will also be implementing the digital key technology, only the second Hilton property in Dubai after DoubleTree by Hilton Dubai Business Bay to do so. As part of its commitment to the environment, guest room spa amenities will be replaced with individual wall-mounted pumps to reduce plastic waste, Chowdhury says.
“I feel that, being a general manager here, especially in Dubai, will be a bit different from other places in the world. I’ll be extremely involved in every aspect of the operations, starting from the guest experience, all the way to the back of house. It is a mid-market property so the key is to have that level of connection with the guest through every aspect. That would be my leadership approach, I would say,” Chowdhury concludes.
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