Colin Wang Appointed As Executive Assistant Manager Of Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Colin Wang as the Executive Assistant Manager.
Colin joins the hotel from Millennium Gloucester Hotel London, where he had served as Front Office Manager. Having been with the Millennium & Copthorne Group since 1996, he started as a Duty Manager in Copthorne Orchid Hotel Singapore. Thereafter, he joined Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel as part of the pre-opening team and was promoted to Assistant Front Office Manager in 2001.
Colin was transferred to Millennium Hotel Abu Dubai in 2002 to be part of the pre-opening team and was also promoted to Senior Assistant Front Office Manager. He was responsible for rebranding the Dubai airport hotel to what is now known as the Millennium Hotel Abu Dubai. After a year, he was transferred to Orchard Hotel Singapore and was promoted to Front Office Manager.
In his new capacity, Colin will report to Mr John Sartain, General Manager of Grand Copthorne Waterfront and will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the hotel.
“With his expertise and extensive experience, he will be a very valuable addition to the team at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel,” John Sartain, General Manager, says.
With 550 guest rooms and suites, including rooms available for the physically challenged, each guestroom is equipped with business-enabling conveniences such as data port for dial-up modems, broadband internet access, a selection of cable channels and pay-movies, in-room personal safe, IDD service, hair-dryer, and coffee and tea making facilities. Room categories include Superior, Deluxe, Club, Club Deluxe as well as Suites and a Presidential Suite. With the growing demand for non-smoking rooms, the hotel has recently converted six additional floors, totaling 15 floors of rooms appointed for non-smoking guests.
Guest facilities include the gymnasium, tennis courts, out-door swimming pool and jacuzzi, a business centre and 25 serviced offices offering secretarial and business support services. The hotel also offers much to satisfy all palates with Italian cuisine at the award-winning Pontini, Shanghainese cuisine at Grand Shanghai, international and Asian cuisine at Café Brio's and live entertainment at The Piano Bar.
Combined with 35 meeting rooms across more than 6,240 square metres of meeting space at the Waterfront Conference Centre, the hotel provides meeting planners a one-stop solution for all events. From meetings to themed breaks, meals and accommodation arrangements, our dedicated Events Services Team will take care of them all. Accommodating up to 900 delegates in the column-free, 820 square-metre Grand Ballroom, with its towering six-metre high ceiling, the Waterfront Conference Centre is equipped with a full complement of meeting aids including wireless, audio-visual, intelligent light and sound facilities.
Millennium & Copthorne International Limited (a subsidiary of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc and member of the Singapore-based Hong Leong Group) owns and operates hotel properties in seven countries in Asia. Globally, the UK-headquartered Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc owns and operates more than 110 hotels, making it one of the largest owned and managed hotel groups in the world.
The Millennium and Copthorne brands are the principal brands for this worldwide portfolio. Each hotel within the portfolio exhibits its own unique personality but they are all collectively distinguished and recognised for their capacities to provide the best possible business, leisure, incentives, meetings and events experience to all customers worldwide.
The Millennium Hotels portfolio showcases 4-star deluxe and 5-star properties located in international gateway cities throughout the United Kingdom, continental Europe, North America, Asia, New Zealand, North Africa, and the Middle East. The Copthorne Hotels stable - many of which have won a succession of major industry awards, comprises 4-star properties located in major regional business centres around the world.
In Asia, hotels operating under Millennium & Copthorne brands are Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore, Orchard Hotel Singapore, M Hotel Singapore, Copthorne King's Hotel Singapore, Copthorne Orchid Hotel Singapore, The Heritage Hotel Manila in the Philippines, Millennium Hotel Sirih Jakarta in Indonesia, Copthorne Orchid Hotel Penang and Grand Millennium Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Millennium Seoul Hilton in Korea, Grand Millennium Sukhumvit Bangkok and Millennium Resort Patong Phuket in Thailand, Millennium Hongqiao Hotel Shanghai, Millennium Harbourview Hotel Xiamen, Grand Millennium Beijing (opening 2nd quarter 2008), Millennium Chengdu (opening 2008), and Copthorne Hotel Qingdao (rebranding 3rd quarter 2008) in China.
Additionally, Millennium & Copthorne International Ltd owns several other chain-managed hotels including the Grand Hyatt Taipei in Taiwan, the Nikko Hotel and JW Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong.
Daylin Koh
(65) 6233 1004
Millennium
