October 2024 Recently, Mr. Ashwani Nayar (Area General Manager, IHG, South West Asia and General Manager, InterContinental Dhaka) has been recognized as Asia’s Best General Manager by CMO Asia and World Federation of Hospitality Professionals for his immense contribution in the Hospitality and Tourism industry.
Ashwani is a senior international hotelier with three plus decades of global hospitality experience in South Asia and South East Asia. His core knowledge of Sales & Marketing in hotels for approximately eighteen years has helped him to develop a strong focus on customer satisfaction and generating market-leading returns. Serving as Area General Manager for IHG Hotels & Resorts SWA, he has come to the iconic InterContinental Dhaka, with varied and vast experience in managing hotel operations, human capital finance and development projects to ensure 360-degree returns for all stakeholders.
He is a life-long believer in consistent learning and is credited for various innovations especially in marketing and sustainably that have been adopted across the industry as best practice. He has to his experiential repertoire, successful hotel and restaurant openings, hotel performance turnaround, managing and leading during crises, operating luxury hotels and Michelin star restaurants. He has received multiple accolades and awards on international platforms recently as South Asia’s Best General Managers and General Manager of the Year at the IHGI Impact Award, IMEA region. He has also featured in Forbes Magazine India on the Top 100 People Leaders list. He has led his team successfully to international recognition as InterContinental Dhaka has been awarded by World Travel Awards, World Luxury Hotel Awards, British Curry Life Award, SATA Awards and Bangladesh Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Awards in recent years
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