Alain Borgers named General Manager at Shangri-La Hotel, Paris
Mr. Borgers, from Belgium, has spent a significant portion of his career in South East Asia, 13 years of which he spent working for Shangri-La Hotel and Resorts. Graduating from Lausanne’s respected Ecole Hôtlière – one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious hotel schools – he began his international career in the luxury hotel industry at the Geneva Hilton, quickly attaining the position of restaurant director. He was then named executive assistant manager at Nile Hilton in Cairo, and moved on to the same role in Osaka, Japan. In 1994 Mr. Borgers became resident manager of Makati Shangri-La, Manila in the Philippines, and was later named general manager for hotels in the group in Bali, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. During the three years prior to joining the executive team at Shangri-La Hotel, Paris, he served as managing director of Shangri-La Rasa Ria Resort, Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia, which was named Best Resort in Malaysia by the Malaysian Tourism Board in 2006-2007.
