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Raffles Hotels to focus on Asia growth, says CEO Omer Acar amid rising competition
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Mr Omer Acar, chief executive of home-grown hotel brand Raffles Hotels and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, has nearly 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry.
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SINGAPORE – Few luxury hotels in the Republic carry the weight of history like Raffles. For 139 years, the grand neo-Renaissance landmark in Beach Road has stood as both a national icon and a symbol of old-world hospitality.
It is where the Singapore Sling cocktail was born, where royalty and rock stars – from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to American singer Michael Jackson – have stayed, and where, as legend has it, a tiger was once shot beneath a billiard table.
