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ACCOR APPOINTS GAYNOR REID AS VP COMMUNICATIONS FOR ASIA PACIFIC
SINGAPORE: Accor has appointed Ms. Gaynor Reid as the Vice President of Communications for Asia Pacific. Gaynor has been with Accor Hotels for 15 years and was most recently Director Communications Asia Pacific. She will oversee both internal and external communications, together with sustainable development in the region. Gaynor will also sit on the group’s Executive Committee for Asia Pacific.
Based in Singapore, Gaynor will work closely with the teams across the region and manage communications for the group’s growing network of hotels, which currently sits at 635 properties across 17 countries. An award-winning communications professional with over 25 years’ experience in journalism, marketing and PR, Gaynor was previously the Media Relations Manager for Accor in Australia. She has held seats on the Committee of the Australian Society of Travel Writers, the PR Taskforce for the Australian Accommodation Association and the Sydney Olympic Park Marketing and PR Taskforce.
A former journalist, Gaynor has held several roles in PR over the years including working on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, managing the Welcome the World project, and at ACP Publications.
“I am very excited about the challenge that this new position offers and the larger scope of responsibility,” said Gaynor. “The Asia Pacific region is such an exciting place to be, with Accor opening, on average, one hotel per week, and I look forward to bringing greater visibility to the group and to our brands, as well as highlighting Accor’s strong commitment to corporate social responsibility as part of this new role.”
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- Tourism
Categories
- accor
- asia pacific
- family accommodation
- hospitality
- hospitality asia
- hotels
- hotels and resorts
- resorts
- singapore
- travel
- appointments
- communications
Accor, is the world’s leading hotel operator, with 470,000 rooms in 3,600 hotels across 14 trusted brands in 92 countries. The company is organized around two distinct divisions, HotelServices, which operates and franchises the hotels and HotelInvest, which is a hotel owner and investor. The Accor hotels sit in three segments from budget to luxury which are constantly reinventing their concept to satisfy the needs of business and leisure customers around the globe. Accor brands include in luxury-upscale; Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery and Grand Mercure, The Sebel, midscale; Novotel, Suite Novotel, Mercure and Adagio and economy; ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget, adagio access and hotelF1. The Group boasts a powerful digital ecosystem, notably its booking portal accorhotels.com, its brand websites and its loyalty program Le Club Accorhotels.
The Group’s 170,000 employees benefit from working for a company that believes in progression and has an industry leading training program, the Accor Académie. Since its creation 45 years ago, Accor is making innovation and sustainable hospitality the focus of its strategic vision as well as of its customer-centric approach development and innovation process.
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