Kevin B Murphy, Ishc Email & Phone Number

Gold Coast, Qld, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Providing hotel owners with superior, experienced asset management in cooperation with a hotel’s operating management jointly designed to improve both profitability and sustainable, enhanced asset value.

ISHC - Member since 2007. Membership of this prestigious international association of experienced hospitality consultants is by invitation only and with confirmation from those existing associate members worldwide.

We provide senior advice and assistance in strategic planning, asset management, hotel acquisition due diligence and sales advice, new hotel development planning and project execution, investment and financial analysis for hotel investors, and other marketing and project services related to Hospitality Real Estate for Hotel Owners and Asset Managers, as well as for new development entities, institutional investors and lenders throughout the Asia Pacific and Middle East areas.

Australian Hospitality International is an Australian based consulting practice founded by myself and hotel experienced partners in 1993 to provide expertise to primarily owners and investors, many of them Asian based, in their Australian hospitality related real estate and management companies operations in that field. The AHI company today continues to provide input on Asset Management, Acquisitions and Development guidelines, primarily for the overseas and Asian based owners of Australasian hotels from offices in Sydney and Melbourne.

An active member since 1984, I served as the elected Chairman of the Pacific Asia Travel Association - PATA - the membership association of public and private partners which is the authority on travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific region, for more information refer to www.pata.org.Currently remain on their Executive Board as the Immediate Past Chairman.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Previously known as Performa Global until 2009. Airlines, hotels brands live in guest experience. Over 20 + years, Yates and Partners have worked with airlines, hotels to design & improve customer environments and experiences by developing brand-linked service platforms & training programs, through approaching brands holistically, considering all touch points. They ensure every possible detail is considered in building customer environments or experiences; from greeting customers, to the quality of wine in an airline’s First Class, to the cut of linen in a Presidential Suite. Strategies ensure every point of engagement is on-brand, adding brand value, encouraging customer loyalty. Among its many clients, the world’s most prestigious airlines and hotels, including CX, MAS, ANA, and LH, the Savoy Moscow, several Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts and some even more prestigious where our discreet work has remained behind the scene to protect their own identity and ranking.Strategies that recommended and implemented for clients differentiate, enabling brand experiences addressing global challenges in the most competitive of service environments.

I was a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, as a long time member during and following on from their transition from the older HCIMA, and was asked to represent their members who were located in the Asia Pacific region, and reflect their views and representations with the Directors of the Institute in the UK. Though we were open also to creating further members activities and conducting forums and functions within the AP area, the focus of the Institute and its attention to its many thousands of former international members across the Asia Pacific drifted away from its international members who have not received the international recognition and support of past years as the Institute has migrated to being a predominantly regional UK body in its primary focus in recent years.

DIrecting the Conference Programme, Speakers invitations and participation, and hosted and chaired the conference proceedings, acting as MC and Moderator on sessions.

Hong Kong, Sar, Hk

Responsible for the identification, sourcing and acquisition of hotel properties worldwide, their asset management over ten years on behalf of the company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly listed Great Eagle Holdings of Hong Kong. With an extensive background in senior Operational, Marketing and Development roles in a number of major hotel companies worldwide over 28 years, was integral member of the senior team that created Asia's newest luxury Hotel Operator to emerge from Hong Kong this generation, Langham Hotels International, www.langhamhotels.comServed also as the General Manager (1995 - 97) of the Renaissance Hotel Kowloon (now the Langham Hong Kong) and as Vice President - Operations & Asset Management (1996 - 2003) for the Groups owned international hotels.

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Took over the management of this newly leased former Menzies Rialto Hotel and successfully re-branded it as Le Meridien Melbourne, their first Australian hotel contract. During this time a complete renovation was initiated and managed while remaining fully operational. I resigned from the company following the announcement of the sale of the company by then parent Air France to Forte Hotels to start my own Asset Management Company, Australian Hospitality International, representing the Asian based owners of hotels in Australia and New Zealand.

Assumed management of this hotel, on it’s coming out of receivership, for new owners, Singapore's largest private developer Far East Organization, with a new target NOI securing the continued management contract guaranteed by my then brand superiors at 6 times the previous best achieved GOP.Without any infusion of new capital for what was seen as a poorly positioned hotel, with although initially one third of its rooms in poor condition from past water damage, the guaranteed previously unobtainable profit target was achieved in each of my 3 years tenure, with strong new community support as well as international industry support & recognition. This included an international HSMAI award for our innovative hotel marketing and advertising efforts for "Singapore's other hotel". Having achieved what Head Office thought very unlikely, I became noted as the turnaround specialist which always risks ending up with the dirtiest jobs others fight to decline. It did however teach me that something is not always impossible, but just harder if you are willing to persevere, and build up and rely on your own team and resources and not expect the solution from a Head Office even wary of the promise they had themselves made.

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Was VP , M&S - Asia Pacific responsible for all the Divisional M & S functions at the time of Le Meridien's major initial development and expansion into the Asia Pacific region with multiple openings and hotels in Colombo, Delhi, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta, Singapore , Hong Kong, Tokyo and Melbourne. Served also from late 1989 to 1993 as General Manager of Le Meridien hotels in both Singapore and Melbourne.

General Manager of these South African Breweries subsidiaries within Botswana that consisted of 75% of the country's total hotel room inventory in major cities and towns at the time and the largest luxury safari camp operations (6 luxury tented camps - 3 of which were later part of Orient Express Hotels) in the Okavango Delta with it's own air and ground transportation services. Bought the original and built thereon a new Riley's Hotel in Maun at the gateway to the Okavango Delta , and the Thapama Lodge and Casino in Francistown, the 2nd largest city of Botswana in the north east close to the Zimbabwe border and the city of Bulawayo.

In charge of all International Sales activities and Sales offices for both Sun City, the first mega resort of the then CEO Sol Kerzner, sited outside of Johannesburg and the other 28 urban and resort hotels at the time of Southern Sun Hotels, the region's largest public hotel operating company which Mr. Kerzner founded (Now part of Tsogo Suns Hotels and Sun International).

Mclean, Va, Us

Responsible for the Marketing, Sales and Public Relations of Hilton's Hotels in Africa at that time, based in Nairobi, Kenya. The division consisted of 3 hotels in Kenya and Hilton hotels in the capitals of the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, and Lesotho with market & feasibilities done on projects in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Malawi, and South Africa during that period.

Mclean, Va, Us

Area Sales Manger for all the commercial accounts out of New York City and Northern New Jersey to all the Hilton International Hotels worldwide, and including travel accounts in New Jersey. Responsible that year for the successful introduction and major international commercial signings surpassing budget contract sales by 400% within this critical Fortune 500 market of Hilton's first worldwide rate corporate program, the Executive Business Service, or EBS marketed beyond expectations successfully to major international companies based in that region. Windows on the World, at the World Trade Centre, then a new restaurant subsidiary of INHILCO, was our local, and a great draw for clients as you might imagine.

Specialist international tour director with responsibility for the development and conducting of luxury group business especially to the Asia Pacific and Africa on programs of the group, as well as for hotel chain contracting worldwide for those and their other international programs.

Advanced Management Program ’97, Mps ’84-’87 Various Certificates & Diplomas, Available Senior Management Programs, In Both Ithaca, Ny, 1997, & Regionally In Asia Pacific '84-87

Undergraduate, Arts-Law

Masters In Life, Hospitality & Tourism

Adjunct Professor In Their Mba, Tourism & Hospitality

Taught As Adjunct Professor In Their Mba, Hotel Asset Management

Career Development Institute, Rooms Division Management, Advanced Sales & Marketing, Advanced Management

Degree Of Hard Knocks, Resort Development & Isolated Areas - Operational Qualifications