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Old Jun 22, 2010 | 1:10 pm
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I ran this thru Google Translator:

People of the World Print Send Rate New GM at the "Hyatt"
by Maria Baufeld
Tashi Takang on 1 July to take over as Director General of the Hamburg line, the "Park Hyatt". Takang was born in Tibet and raised in Nepal and India. He studied in Delhi politics, science and economics before he began as a graduate of the Swiss Hotel Management School "Belvoirpark" his career. The 53-year-old has the Swiss nationality and has been operating for 14 years for Hyatt International. His career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation began in 1996 in Dubai, in 1999, he moved first to Belgrade to Warsaw in 2003. He most recently served as Director General in Istanbul. Takang is married and has two children. He succeeds Stephen Blackburne, who is leaving after seven years as Director General in Hamburg and the headquarters moves to Chicago, where he will be responsible as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
I've met Mr. Takang at the Park Hyatt Istanbul. He is a great GM, and should be a very capable replacement at the PH Hamburg. I'll be in Istanbul this fall, and am sad to learn that I won't get to see Mr. Takang when I am there.

As an aside, one of the things that makes Hyatt a great chain in my opinion is their movement of management staff between properties. This gives the properties a consistency that I appreciate as a guest.
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