Accor aparthotel model Adagio has chosen a brand new chief working officer and member of its administration committee.
Jean-Marc Schnell will tackle the position to capitalise on the model’s robust progress in exercise.
Renovation mission
Schnell goals to make use of his expertise as a pacesetter within the lodge trade, acquired on three continents over 30 years, to assist Adagio’s progress plan.
As a member of the administration committee, he’ll lead the operations crew in France and Europe, implementing a renovation plan and monitoring the transformation of the community, together with supporting Adagio’s formidable growth plan in France and internationally, and collaborating totally within the firm’s CSR ambition.
In depth expertise
Schnell constructed his expertise across the hospitality trade’s ethos of working with individuals. His profession began as a director of impartial inns within the Alsace and Calvados areas, following being the director of the franchised Sofitel in Montpellier. He then joined the Accor group in 2003 to develop operations in Africa with a community of 40 inns in 15 nations till 2016.
He lastly moved to the Accor Central Europe crew, based mostly in Munich, as VP of operations for the economic system and midscale segments in Germany and Austria (205 inns) earlier than changing into SVP of franchise operations and in command of proprietor relations in the course of the covid disaster with greater than 70 companions.
Schnell said: “I’m right here to guide Adagio in the direction of enchancment and elevated outcomes. My goal will likely be to assist growth, amongst different issues via franchising, in a human and accountable mind-set, with buyer satisfaction at its coronary heart.”
Growth plan
Adagio combines the consolation of a flat with the companies of a lodge. Primarily present in metropolis centres and sought-after areas, the model was based in France in 2007 as a three way partnership between Accor and Pierre & Vacances Heart Parcs.
What was initially 16 aparthotels in two nations has now turn out to be a quickly rising firm with the purpose of being current in Europe in addition to within the Center East and Latin America. Right this moment, Adagio is the European market chief within the aparthotel sector with 125 properties around the globe and goals to increase its community to a complete of 200 aparthotels with 15,000 flats by 2024.
Already within the pipeline are Aparthotel Adagio entry Brussels Airport, bringing 160 keys to the Belgian capital in Q2 2023; Adagio London Whitechapel https://app.tophotelprojects.com/inns/30965, which is able to include 112 studios and 35 flats, set to reach within the UK capital metropolis in This fall 2023; and the 119-room Aparthotel Adagio Entry Neckarpark, which is coming to Stuttgart, Germany, in Q3 2024.
