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Management - Hotels
Sun Resorts has always concentrated on providing excellent service in wonderful surroundings and has managed to combine inspired leadership with genuine team spirit. The Resorts’ four General Managers bring their vast experience of the hotel industry to the running of the Resorts, and the results speak for themselves.
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Pascal Brun
Hotel Manager - Le Touessrok
Pascal Brun appointed General Manager of Le Touessrok in February 2009. He will be also the Vice President Operations East Coast for Sun Resorts.
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Le Touessrok has been placed under the management of one of the most famous General Managers of the luxury hotel industry, French born Pascal Brun. Pascal Brun has joined Le Touessrok as General Manager in February 2009. He is also the Vice President Operations, East Coast, for Sun Resorts and will be involved in the major project of Le Coco Beach redevelopment.
In France, Pascal Brun was better known to have been involved with Group Lucien Barrière for the past 25 years. Before joining Sun Resorts, he was Managing Director of Barrière Hotels and Casinos in Cannes. Voted once ‘Best General Manager’ in the world, the former General Manager of the mythical Majestic Barrière in Cannes was also at the head of Hotel Gray d’Albion and Casinos Cannes Croisette, Les Princes and Menton. Before the French Riviera, Pascal Brun was General Manager of Royal Hotel in Deauville. His excellent knowledge of the luxury hospitality business, his experience and leadership skills, together with the experienced team of Le Touessrok, are bound to give to each guest a unique feeling of being visitors of a unique hotel.
“I have very high expectations of this new project for me in Mauritius with Sun Resorts and at the head of this prestigious hotel. With the help of its experimented team, we are going to maintain Le Touessrok as one of the best hotels in the world in its category,” says Pascal Brun. |
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Alessandro Schenone
Hotel Manager - Kanuhura
Alessandro Schenone has been appointed General Manager of Kanuhura since April 1st 2008. After a successful career in Italy as Operations Director of numerous Club hotels and in Mauritius as General Manager of two hotels, he joined Sun Resorts.
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Italian born, Alessandro is a graduate in Economics from Genoa Institute in Italy. He was attracted by the hospitality industry and following additional training and work exposure, he quickly turned towards this sector.
Alessandro Schenone has had a very successful career with well known Veratour group. He has managed several Clubs in the world and was Operations Director of 18 Clubs between April 2002 and November 2004.
The experience Alessandro gained guided him towards the post of General Manager of the famous Hotel Plaza in Venice.
In November 2005, Alessandro was approached by Indian ocean based Appavou Group and was the General Manager of two of its hotels on the East coast of Mauritius and was also very active at the level of AHRIM, Mauritius association of hotels and restaurants.
He finally joined Sun Resorts in April 2008. “I am very happy to be part of an exciting new venture with an experienced hotel group like Sun Resorts. As for Kanuhura, it is a true haven and pearl set in the bright Indian Ocean and I am confident that with the help of all team members, the hotel will continue maintaining its status of leading hotel in the Maldives,” says Alessandro Schenone. |
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Andrew is the General Manager of Sugar Beach Resort. He started off in South Africa before being transferred to Mauritius nearly thirty years ago. He has been with Sun Resorts ever since.
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Andrew Slome has had nearly thirty years of experience with the company in Mauritius. He was appointed General Manager of Sugar Beach Resort in January 1999 and has brought his hands-on style of management to every aspect of running the hotel, including the introduction of an annual Jazz Festival to fit in with the Dixieland feel of the Resort.
He puts the success of Sugar Beach Resort down to its combination of good looks and a relaxed atmosphere: “That feeling of formal French colonial style and laid-back Provencal holiday house is important.”
Andrew was born in Cape Town in 1954 and worked part-time in hotels as a student. He trained at the Johannesburg Hotel School and got his first job at Southern Sun (Sol Kerzner’s South African hotel company) in Port Elizabeth before being sent to Mauritius at 4 days’ notice. He never went home again.
Andrew Slome is convinced of the importance of training, both internally and using management training “gurus” – he himself has completed American trainer Tom Peters’ “Skunk Camp” and a People Management course at Disney University in Florida.
Andrew Slome has received the Company’s General Manager of the Year award, honorary citizenship of both the village of Flic-en-Flac and the district of Moka, and an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his services to tourism in Mauritius.
He is married with two children and his favourite relaxation is to escape to his cottage in nearby Tamarin, and go deep sea fishing with his son. |
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Nicolas de Chalain
Hotel Manager - La Pirogue
Nicolas took over as General Manager of La Pirogue in May 2005, the first Mauritian to be appointed to the post. He joined Sun Resorts in July 1997 and has previously been Resident Manager at Sugar Beach Resort.
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Nicolas de Chalain took over as General Manager of La Pirogue on 1 May 2005, the first Mauritian to be appointed to the post.
He considers himself a lucky man:
"I am working with a dedicated team that shows a deep sense of belonging to this hotel. They are one of the main reasons behind the success of La Pirogue, giving to the hotel an undeniable human dimension. Team spirit is a reality here and greatly contributes to the particularly easy-going and friendly atmosphere."
Nicolas studied in South Africa and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the University of Natal and a BSc (Hons) Business Science from Rhodes University. He has been with Sun Resorts since July 1997, when he joined as Sales Manager in charge of Groups, Incentives and Conferences for the four hotels. Five years later, Nicolas was appointed as Resident Manager at Sugar Beach Resort.
Nicolas returned to the Regional Office as Regional Sales & Marketing Manager in 2004, assisting the Commercial Director and looking after the regional markets as well as Incentives, Events and Golf.
Before joining the Group, Nicolas had done his hotel & tourism training with Sheraton International in Phuket and Bangkok, and then worked with Beachcomber Hotels as Executive Assistant Manager at Le Paradis and later at the Royal Palm.
Nicolas strongly believes in motivating individual talent and savoir-faire as major ingredients in achieving high standards of service:
We want to deliver top quality in what we have to offer. It's about cultural diversity, about tasty local cuisine and about the warmth of our people. It's about a 100% Mauritian authentic heartbeat.”
Nicolas is married and has two children. His main hobby is golf and he likes nothing more than spending an hour or two on the golf course. |
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