Community news: Appointments

Lee Botti
& Associates
welcomed back
Tracey Ciorovich
earlier this month.
She returns to the
company’s travel
division as a consultant after a
two-year break.
 Development
Promotions
has appointed
Michelle Hunter
as its new
MICE manager.
Previously she was the gm of
groups and incentives at World
Leisure Holidays.
 Ralf Masermann has
joined the Hahn Air team as
the vp Travel Management
Companies. This is a newly
created position in response
to the increasing role TMCs
have in the corporate travel
buying process. Previously,
Ralf held the position of
director global account
management at Hahn Air.
 The Palazzo
in Fourways
has appointed
Lebohang
Mokoena as its
new senior sous
chef. Previously, he was the
senior sous chef at 54 on
Bath in Rosebank. Lebohang
started his career as a trainee
at the BON Hotel Riviera on
Vaal before pursuing a career
in the Kruger National Park’s
Selati restaurant. He later
went on to spend three years
in Abu Dhabi at the Staybridge
Suites.
 Executive director and chief
executive of Sun International,
Graeme Stephens, has
resigned and will leave the
group at the end of April 2017.
Following five years at Sun
International, Graeme will take
up the role of ceo of SKYCITY
Entertainment Group. Graeme
will be succeeded by Anthony
Leeming who is the current cfo
of Sun International.
 Following
a successful
tenure at the
Flamingo Casino
in Kimberley, Peter
Guthrie has taken
up the position
of gm at Sun International’s
Meropa in Polokwane. He
has 26 years of experience
in the hospitality and gaming
industry. Peter says there are
big changes coming to the
complex in 2017 with the
opening of a new hotel and
a revamp of the food and
beverage offering.
 The Blue Train
has appointed
Bafana Mlambo
as its new
reservations
manager. He has
twelve years’
experience with the operating
division during which he
managed and facilitated the
bookings and sales of The
Blue Train.
 Two new executives have
joined Cape Town Tourism.
Marketing executive, Leigh
Franks, has experience
across European, African and
domestic markets in various
sectors, including tourism.
Tourism services executive,
Thembi Kunene, has over 18
years’ experience in tourism.
She has worked for Acsa,
was the ceo of the Tourism
Grading Council at South
African Tourism and currently
serves on the Board of
Trustees of Brand South Africa
and Stenden University as a
tourism expert.
 Tintswalo
Atlantic has
announced the
promotion of
Justine Suntah
to the position
of executive
chef. She began her career
at Tintswalo Atlantic as a
sous chef in December 2013
and worked under former
executive chef, Jeantelle Van
Staden.
 Kim Nixon is the new
md of Wilderness Safaris
Botswana. She started her
career as an overland guide in
Botswana in the mid-1990s.
Previous Botswana md, Grant
Woodrow, will take on his new
role as Wilderness Safaris
chief operating officer.
Nathaly Ahrens has joined the
Wilderness Safaris Namibia
team as gm of both the
tour operator’s reservations
team and Travel Shop as of
Septembe.