Hoo named KHI director of marketing and communications

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ASIA’S fast growing hotel group Kosmopolito Hotels International (KHI), whose brands include Boutique Series by Kosmopolito, Grand Dorsett, Dorsett Regency Hotels & Resorts and Silka Hotels has appointed Katie Hoo as director of marketing and communications with immediate effect.

Based at KHI’s corporate office in Kuala Lumpur and reporting directly to the group’s senior vice-president of sales and marketing, Hoo will be managing the group’s strategic marketing activities, formulating and implementing marketing plans, and developing timely public relations initiatives.

With more than 20 years experience in the hospitality industry, she brings along with her hands-on leadership in marketing international hotel chains, expertise in developing and executing marketing and communications plan, as well as executing social media networking programmes.

Hoo was previously the director of marketing and communications at Sutera Harbour Resort, Kota Kinabalu.

She was also the director of communications for Hotel Nikko Kuala Lumpur and was the director of MarCom for Parkroyal Kuala Lumpur. Hoo began her career in the hospitality industry with the Shangri-La Hotel Kuala Lumpur.