ACCOR : Cyril Kovarsky is joining Accor as SVP Global Sales
February 23, 2015 at 03:09 pm EST
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February 23rd, 2015
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Cyril Kovarsky is joining Accor as SVP Global Sales, effective as of April 1st, 2015. Cyril will be responsible for defining and coordinate Accor's B-to-B sales strategy for all segments (large corporate accounts, event agencies, airlines, travel agents, tour operators).
Cyril Kovarsky is graduated from ESG Paris. In 2000, he joined Orange as Sales Director for the B-to- B segment in Paris. In 2004, he became head of Orange retail stores in Paris and the Ile de France region. He then became director of Orange retail distribution in France and CEO of Orange Promotion. In 2010, Cyril was appointed Senior Vice-President Corporate Sales for Orange Business Services and as such, he was in charge of the sale of the entire offer for 50,000 Small & Medium -sized Enterprises and large national accounts (excluding key accounts) based in France.
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Accor, is the world's leading hotel operator, with 470,000 rooms in 3,700 hotels across 14 trusted brands in
92 countries. The company is organized around two distinct divisions, HotelServices, which operates and franchises the hotels and HotelInvest, which is a hotel owner and investor. The Accor hotels sit in three segments from budget to luxury which are constantly reinventing their concept to satisfy the needs of business and leisure customers around the globe. Accor brands include in luxury-upscale; Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery and Grand Mercure, The Sebel, midscale; Novotel, Suite Novotel, Mercure and Adagio and economy; ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget, adagio access and hotelF1. The Group boasts a powerful digital ecosystem, notably its booking portal accorhotels.com, its brand websites and its loyalty program Le Club Accorhotels.
The Group's 170,000 employees benefit from working for a company that believes in progression and has an industry leading training program, the Accor Académie. Since its creation 45 years ago, Accor is making innovation and sustainable hospitality the focus of its strategic vision as well as of its customer-centric approach development and innovation process.
Accor is the No. 1 European hotel group. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- operating hotels under management contract (74.7%; HotelServices);
- owned and leased hotel management (25.3%). In addition, the group offers a business of renting luxury private residences, as well as providing digital services to independent hoteliers, concierge services, etc.
At the end of 2023, the group operates a network of 5,584 hotels (821,518 rooms) distributed primerly between luxury and top-range hotels (978 hotels; Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Swissotel, Grand Mercure, Mövenpick, The Sebel and Rixos names), mid-range hotels (1,732; Novotel, Novotel Suites, Mercure, adagio, Mama Shlter and Tribe), and economy hotels (2,826; ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget, adagio access, hotelF1, Formule 1, Jo&Joe, Breakfree and Greet).
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