The new, 162-guest room hotel will be located within a mixed-use development, adjacent to the historic Via Olmo. The Hilton Lake Como is expected to welcome guests in 2017.

The hotel has 568 guest rooms and suites in a range of categories and sizes and the hotel’s 12-storey atrium lobby creates an impressive central area for the trendy lifestyle hub.

The first eco-resort property of its type in the region, BASK Resort Gili Meno will feature 81 individual villas totalling 98 rooms in studio, loft, two-bedroom and three-bedroom suite layouts.

The brand will transform the current North 16 GOA Resort owned by Convention Hotels India (CHI) into the 135-room Hard Rock Hotel Goa.

Mr. Kinsell joins Loews Hotels after 19 years in senior positions with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and more than 35 years in the hospitality business.

Maalouf’s most recently has been Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company and he was formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of HMSHost Corporation

Bozoki joins Four Seasons Hotel Doha most recently from the One & Only Reethi Rah Resort in the Maldives, where he served as chef de cuisine at the resort’s Japanese restaurant Tapasake.

More than 3,000 cabins are scheduled to open by 2018, including YOTEL hotels in Singapore, Paris, Miami, San Francisco and a second property in New York City.

Shah has served on the boards of directors of La Quinta and its predecessor entities since 2013.