The Taj Cape Town has appointed a dedicated Gauteng sales manager. Annande Lambrechts (pictured here) brings considerable experience to the team having worked at five-star hotels in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. She joins Nicolene Kotze, the Cape Town sales manager responsible for the corporate and leisure markets, and Leanne Solomon, who looks after conference and government business as well as Cape-based corporates.
Warren Stone has been appointed the new gm of Orient-Express Botswana. Warren was previously operations manager for All Terrain Services in Ghana – a company that set up and ran residence town sites for the mining and manufacturing industry. In his new position he will train local staff into management positions, invest in community projects and strengthen the guest experience at Orient-Express’s three camps in Botswana – Eagle Island Camp, Khwai River Lodge and Savute Elephant Camp.
Lyrene Zimmerman has been appointed new marketing and sales director of ICC Durban. She previously worked with the Virgin Group, marketing Richard Branson's game reserve in the Sabi Sand then headed up the global sales and marketing for Tswalu Kalahari, a reserve in Northern Cape.
Fabrizio Lopez has joined Extraordinary Marketing Concepts. He joined the tourism industry in 1996 after backpacking through Europe and the Middle East and has since experienced the whole range of options within the leisure market from being a retail travel consultant in the late 90s to being a sales representative at Wilderness Safaris and Sales Manager at African Sun Hotels.
