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Jean-Paul Herzog
Area president Middle East and Africa, Hilton Worldwide
Moving up 11 places in the Power 50 is Hilton’s Jean-Paul Herzog, whose celebrates 40 years with the global hotel giant this year.
He took up his area role when Hilton’s new organisational structure was announced in 2007, and oversees 44 hotels across the Middle East and Africa, with responsibility for 27 more hotels in the pipeline.
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Although Herzog has very recently announced that he will be retiring at the end of the 2010, he moves up the rankings this year following a series of achievements for the company in the region. Over the past 12 months, Hilton has signed its first resort property on the Dead Sea in Jordan; its first Doubletree by Hilton in Jordan, to be located in Aqaba; it signed the first Hilton-branded property in Riyadh and two further Hiltons at King Saud University in Riyadh; and teamed up with New Doha Hotels Company to develop two projects in Qatar.
Hilton also achieved a significant milestone when it opened its first Garden Inn hotel in the Middle East and Africa in Saudi Arabia.
The Hilton Garden Inn Riyadh Olaya is the first of many Garden Inns being developed in Saudi Arabia in partnership with the Al Hokair Group, in locations such as Riyadh, Al Khobar, Dammam, and Jubail. The second Hilton Garden Inn is set to open in Riyadh over the next 12 months.
And in 2011, Hilton plans to bring another name to the region, the luxury Conrad brand, due to debut in Dubai.
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