The YoungHotelier.com Summer Competition Winners! A big thank you to everyone who sent in their emails, comments and entries for the Great, Grand and Famous competition with YoungHotelier.com! We’ve chosen the following 3 entries to receive a copy of Fritz Gubler’s wonderful hospitality book: Winner: “Hotel openings are like planting a seed and watching it grow” by Darren ...

This story begins when I moved to Melbourne to work for the Radisson Flagstaff Gardens Hotel, a four and half star Hotel locate adjacent to the Queen Victoria Markets. I was working for a General Manager I had worked for previously in Adelaide. Not long into the contract the GM told me of an opportunity of an opening at the Radisson Resort Denarau in Fiji a five star hotel located on Denarau Islan...

M A G I C   P O T S Experienced by: Rona  Lyn M. Tupaz  I’m working as a waitress in Views Restaurant of F/B Department of Le Meridien Ala Aqah Beach Resort –Fujairah. The story goes like this, as a waitress there are certain responsibilities that are allocated to us everyday, one of that is to be a tea/coffee runner,  During every breakfast we have to bring the two pots, one is for the ...

NEVER LOST AND ALWAYS FOUND This is an associate of Le Meridien Al Aqah who holds our philosophy “EVERY GUEST LEAVES HAPPY” very dearly to his heart. In Rajesh’s own words….. I would like to share one of my experience held with Mr. Mark James who stayed with us at Le Meridien Al Aqah. It was about a lost & found incident. I work as a Housekeeping co-coordinator and most of the time we ...

YoungHotelier.com Competition – Win a signed copy of Great, Grand & Famous Hotels! Introducing Fritz Gubler’s Great, Grand & Famous Hotels (RRP AU$79.95) This book contains stories about great, grand and famous hotels sourced from history, legend and the occasional snippet of gossip. Take a peek inside and discover a treasure trove of famous or forgotten anecdotes. See the dramas u...

Opportunities available in the fastest growing and most exciting region of the world Dubai That’s what I read about four months ago in my universities career office and right about now was when I should have been starting to pack. My name is Sean Griffiths and I’m 20 years old, I live in Melbourne, Australia, I am currently studying hospitality and tourism, working part time as a hotel recepti...

Communication breakdown sang Led Zeppelin fifty years ago. Your basic track about a rock musician’s unrequited love, a breakdown that was probably fuelled by dropping enough drugs to keep a small country high for a week. But that track could have been this week’s theme tune because of the omission of one word. Back in Led Zep’s heyday the breakdown would have happened in person or over the p...