subject: Mövenpick Hotel Kuwait’s Story of success [print this page] When the financial crisis first hit the market, Mvenpick Hotel Kuwait made all the preparations needed, to keep its ship sailing a Profit Protection Plan has been executed and has been carried out very carefully to make sure that all angles of the business has been covered. Another equally important aspect that has been taken care of is to keep the moral of the staff up high and to keep on motivating them to achieve good results. The efforts of each employee at the Mvenpick Hotel Kuwait resulted into a successful 2009 where the hotel has achieved great results such as organising the first free trade zone table tennis tournament where 9 companies participated, Mvenpick Hotel Kuwait joined a basketball tournament between different companies, Mvenpick Hotel Kuwait Participated in the Fight the Hunger (World Health Organization) Football Tournament. These where all activities that the hotel was keen on organizing and participating in to insure that the stuff of the hotel is interconnected together with special activities. The greatest achievement of all was that Mvenpick Hotel Kuwait chosen and awarded as the Best Quality Mvenpick hotel in Middle East & Asia. The story of success is concluded with a very important fact that the hotels occupancy for the year 2009 was 82% which reflects the efforts made by the team to reach such an honours result. Mvenpick Hotels & Resorts, a premium hotel management company with over 12,000 employees, is represented in 26 countries with over 90 hotels existing or under construction and focuses on its core markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Theinternational hotel group with Swiss roots is forging ahead with its expansion and aims to extend its portfolio to include 100 hotels by 2010. Mvenpick Hotels & Resorts has an established presence in the 4 and 5-star segment with two types of accommodation: business and conference hotels and holiday resorts. The hotel group is a byword for the uncompromising quality of its products and services and is owned by the Mvenpick Holding (66.7 %) as well as the Kingdom Group (33.3 %).
