Grupo Posadas Promotes Calderon to Director General and CEO

Longtime industry veteran Enrique Calderon has assumed the top spot at Grupo Posadas, where, as director general and CEO, he will be charged with overseeing the company’s hotel management business, whose six brand and 120-plus properties include Fiesta Americana, Fiesta Americana Grand, Live Aqua, Fiesta Inn, Hotels One and Explorean By Fiesta Americana. He replaces Rafael de la Mora.

Prior to assuming the position of director general and CEO of Posadas, Calderon served as the company’s chief commercial director and was responsible for the marketing, sales and revenue management of the company’s portfolio of brands.

Calderon’s hotel career took root in 1992, when he was named director of sales for the Westin in Ixtapa. He subsequently held similar positions at the Sheraton Acapulco Resort and Presidente Intercontinental Ixtapa before joining Grupo Posadas as corporate sales director in 1999. In that position, Calderon was charged with the sales and marketing of more than 90 hotels, which generated more 3 million room nights a year.

In 2007, he briefly left Posadas to assume the position of commercial director of Acapulco’s new Mundo Imperial complex, comprising an entertainment center, outdoor promenades with restaurants and shops, 800-room hotel and Mexico’s third-largest Expo and convention center.

Source: Travel Pulse