Press Releases for Kor Hotel Group's The Tides Riviera Maya
KOR HOTEL GROUP TAPS 30-YEAR HOSPITALITY VETERAN VICTOR LOPEZ TO EXPAND LATIN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN PRESENCE
- High-profile executive to focus on third-party management and acquisition opportunities for luxury hotel operator -
April 2007 (Los Angeles) - Tom Hendrick, Executive Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for the Los Angeles-based hotel, real estate development and management firm, The Kor Group, is pleased to welcome Victor Lopez as a member of the company's development team under a strategic partnership with South Florida's Related Group, the multi-billion dollar real estate development firm headed by Jorge M. Perez. Lopez will be based out of Kor's regional office in Miami, Florida and will oversee third-party management agreements and acquisition opportunities for the strategic partnership with The Related Group in the high-volume business/leisure markets of Latin America and the Caribbean.
"Victor has 20 years of experience dedicated to the Latin America and Caribbean regions with Hyatt Hotels Corporation," said Hendrick in making the announcement. "He has gathered vital experience and demonstrated remarkable savvy in the negotiations of international acquisitions. His expertise and insight will serve Kor well as we expand our portfolio further in each of these burgeoning regions."
Lopez joins Kor with a distinguished, 30-year-plus hospitality career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation in a variety of senior management positions. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Development for the company, responsible for international acquisitions and development primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lopez was instrumental in the development of an upscale, Park Hyatt property in Mexico City, a Hyatt Regency Resort on the Yucatan Peninsula and resort projects in Columbia, Costa Rica and several throughout the Caribbean. Prior to that position he served as Hyatt's Senior Vice President, Field Operations, where he directed operations for 23 properties in these same regions and played an integral role in the development and management of a number of Hyatt's most popular and inventive programs, including Spa Hyatt. During his tenure in this position, he also gained wide recognition for major innovations in his development of Hotel Victor in Miami, Florida.
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About The Kor Group
The Kor Group is a privately held real estate investment, development and management firm that is redefining the concept of home with its distinctive hotel and residential properties. Kor Hotel Group, the hospitality division of Kor, holds a diverse property portfolio and manages both its own assets and non-owned hotels under third-party management agreements. Properties include Viceroy Santa Monica and Viceroy Palm Springs, Avalon Hotel and Maison 140 in Beverly Hills, The Tides South Beach, Chamberlain West Holly wood, Loden Vancouver, The Tides on Mexico's Riviera Maya and Villa del Sol resort in Zihuatanejo on the Mexican Pacific Coast. A new Resorts & Residences division unites Kor's hotel and residential expertise with ground-up broad-scale projects both nationally and internationally. Currently under development are two residential resort complexes in Miami, Viceroy Icon Brickell and Viceroy South Beach, two on Mexico's Riviera Maya, Viceroy Riviera Maya and The Tides Playa del Carmen, as well as Kor's initial overseas venture, Viceroy Anguilla in the British West Indies. A timely integration of Kor Hotel Grou p's residential and hotel development visions, these projects represent the next evolution of the Kor mission.