EVAN LEWIS, Vice President Communications, Accor Asia Pacific

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EVAN LEWIS, Vice President Communications, Accor Asia Pacific

Communications for Asia Pacific's largest and most prominent hotel group Accor is headed by Evan Lewis. Based in Accor's Asia Pacific corporate office in Singapore, Evan is responsible for all external and internal communications.

Evan has had over 15 years in senior management positions in the hotel industry, including posts as general manager and operational roles of major hotels in Australia and in Asia. he re-located to Asia from Australia nearly four years ago, when he was appointed Director of Marketing - Asia, for the group.

His appointment comes at a time of rapid growth for Accor throughout Asia, with some 100 hotels in the pipeline in China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and else in the coming two years.

Today, within the region, Accor operates 370 hotels with almost 70,000 rooms under management from the economy to the luxury hotel segments.

Evan has worked with Accor for 10 years and was previously with Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation where he worked in Australia and Indonesia.