InterContinental Phoenicia Hotel Beirut announced the appointment of its new General Manager Manrique Rodriguez, effective from October 1, 2018.

Rodriguez graduated from the Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland and began his career in 1988 as a management trainee in Venezuela and went on to build a more than three-decade career within the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).

His many General Manager roles to date have taken him across the globe, including positions in Australia, North America and Brazil. Rodriguez joins Phoenicia from his most recent post as General Manager of InterContinental Madrid, which he held for the past eight years.