Metropole Hotel Hanoi welcomes its new General Manager.

Having joined the Accor Group in 1992, Mr. Haandrikman brings 25 years of experience in hotel management to Hanoi. He officially assumed the role of General Manager of the Metropole Hanoi Hotel this June.

Since joining the French hotel group, Mr. Haandrikman has held senior management positions at leading hotels in Amsterdam, Brussels, New York, and Moscow, as well as Sofitel-branded hotels in The Hague (Netherlands), Paris (France), Vienna (Austria), Shanghai (China), and most recently Bangkok (Thailand).

During his time in Bangkok, Mr. Haandrikman served as the general manager of two AccorHotels properties, including the 345-room Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit. Under his management, the Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit was considered one of the best five-star hotels in Thailand. A Dutch national, he also oversaw the opening and management of the prestigious Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom in Austria and the renowned Sofitel Paris Defense in France.

Haandrikman graduated from Glion University's Hotel School in the Netherlands, the Executive Management program at ESSEC, and the Executive Management program at Cornell Business School in the United States.

Mr. Haandrikman shared: “Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing markets in Asia. I look forward to integrating with Metropole Hanoi and contributing to maintaining the hotel's inherent values, further building Metropole's reputation as one of Asia's leading hotels.”

This June, Vietnam's most acclaimed hotel also welcomed a new Deputy General Manager. Joseph Colina hails from Washington, where he served as Managing Director at the Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square Hotel.

Colina has over 10 years of experience in leading hotels worldwide. A U.S. citizen, he began his career as Director of Customer Service at the Sofitel Minneapolis in 2005, and subsequently as Director of Customer Service at the Sofitel Chicago Water Tower and Director of Accommodation at the Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square.

For more detailed information, please contact us at 024 3826 6919 or email h1555@sofitel.com.

Sofitel – A leading luxury hotel brand worldwide, embodying French elegance.

Sofitel is the only luxury French-style hotel brand present on five continents with 120 hotels in nearly 40 countries (over 30,000 rooms in total). Sofitel offers hotels and resorts that meet the increasingly diverse and sophisticated needs of its guests in terms of design, quality, and excellence. Whether located in the heart of major cities like Paris, London, New York, Shanghai, Beijing, or nestled in the suburbs of Morocco, Egypt, France, Polynesia, and Thailand, each Sofitel hotel offers a truly authentic French "artistic" experience.

Sofitel Legend and Sofitel So - new brands in the Sofitel Luxury Hotel system.

The Sofitel Legend hotel chain is iconic and legendary, encompassing buildings with centuries of historical heritage: Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam, Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan, Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena, and Sofitel Legend Peoples Grand Hotel Xian.

The Sofitel So hotel chain is a new type of “boutique hotel” brand, characterized by contemporary architectural style, designed by renowned architects and/or embellished by famous artists from the fashion, design or art world: Sofitel So Mauritius Bel Ombre, Sofitel So Bangkok and Sofitel So Singapore (2014).

Information about Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Hotel

Opened in 1901, the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is renowned as the esteemed Lady of the hotel industry in Vietnam and one of Asia's benchmark hotels. In 2009, Metropole Hanoi became the first Sofitel-branded hotel to be included in Accor's Legend Hotel group.

The 364-room hotel completed a comprehensive renovation in June 2009. The historic Metropole Wing houses luxurious suites named after Charlie Charplin, the renowned writer Somerset Maugham, and Graham Greene, each of whom stayed at the Metropole during the Indochina colonial era.

The hotel's restaurants include the Vietnamese restaurant Spices Garden, the French restaurant Le Beaulieu, and the Italian restaurant Angelina. Le Spa du Metropole, which opened in 2009, immediately became a benchmark for nostalgic elegance.

Learn more about Sofitel atwww.sofitel.com

The Thanh