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Management
Making your dreams come true
At the very apex of luxury hospitality, and at the service of the client’s every
whim. That is the profile of the Royal Demeure manager: respectful of tradition,
open to new ideas and ever-conscious of their guests’ satisfaction.
Management of the Royal Demeure Hotel Group
Luigi de Simone Niquesa – Chief Executive Officer
Luigi de Simone Niquesa began his career in tourism at the Hotel d’Inghilterra
in Rome, where he became general manager in 1985. Entrepreneurial flair and passion,
combined with his studies in the humanities and economics, led him to found the
Charming Hotels & Resorts network in 1987 and in 2002 the holding company
for the Charming brand, TCL Spa, of which he is President.
In the same year (1987) he had the idea of bringing together in a single collection
exclusive hotels in buildings of architectural distinction at the heart of cities
exceptional for their artistic and cultural heritage. He remains Managaing Director
of Royal Demeure, the name given to this collection in 2000. Since 1996 he has
also held the position of President of IRT, an institute specialised in the marketing
and territorial planning of tourism and in consultancy for the hospitality industry.
His experience led him to found the Luxman Group in 2005. He is President of the
Group, which is made up of companies with a strong core competence in the hotel
and property sectors of tourism.
Luigi de Simone Niquesa is a committed promoter of the Italian style in his diverse
activities – a synthesis of high quality, culture and and excellence appreciated
throughout the world. Formerly a teacher at the economics faculty of Perugia University,
he is a member of the Management Council for the Master in Economics and Management
of Tourism at the Economics Faculty of La Sapienza University in Rome.
He is the author of numerous publications and speeches on tourism management
and is dedicated to professional training. Committed to social responsibility
and business ethics, in 2003 he founded the “Human Life Fund – Foundation for
human life”, its goal the safeguarding and restoration of humanity. He holds numerous
posts at an institutional level, including President of UNICA (the Italian Union
of Hotel Chains) and Management Councillor and board member of Federalberghi-Confcommercio,
an Italian hotel business association.
Lorenzo Nobile – Managing Director
Lorenzo Nobile began his professional life in the hotel business in the early
1980s at the Hotel d’Inghilterra in Rome, where he gained in-depth experience
of administration and finance. In 1987 he was one of the founders of the international
network Charming Hotels & Resorts. As Administrative Officer and later Administrative
and Financial Director of The Charming Hotels Spa he was responsible for strategic
operations, investment and financial planning and the elaboration of high-value
hotel structures. In this period he was primarily responsible for the selection,
acquisition and reconstruction of the Hotel Helvetia & Bristol in Florence,
transforming it in to luxury accommodation. He was an active participant in the
project that gave birth to Royal Demeure, a chain that brings together hotels
of great refinement housed in historic palazzi of great splendour, and has seen
it establish a place at the top of the hospitality market.
He is responsible for all aspects of administration, finance and personnel management.
In 2000 came the acquisition and reconstruction of the Grand Hotel Continental
in Siena, also destined to become a benchmark property for elite tourism.
In 2004 he became Managing Director with a brief to take charge of the overall
management of Royal Demeure, to coordinate the activities of the general managers
of the Hotel d’Inghilterra, the Helvetia & Bristol and Grand Hotel Continental,
and assume responsibility for strategy and commercial policy.
In 2005, under his control, the management of the hotels came under the umbrella
of the new Royal Demeure Spa, and a reorganisation was implemented to facilitate
the consolidation and expansion of the chain. In April 2006 he took on the post
of Managing Director, with responsibility for the administration, finance and
management of the company as a whole, as well as being involved in the operational
field and the formation of marketing and commercial strategy.
Paolo Biscioni – Chief Operating Officer
Known and respected internationally as the doyen of Italian five-star hospitality,
Biscioni originally worked for the Royal Demeure Hotel Group in the early stages
of its growth (2004-2006), helping to develop an international presence for these
exclusive properties. He left on a two-year contract to spearhead the opening
and launch of the Hilton Molino Stucky in Venice, promising to return to Royal
Demeure.
Paolo Biscioni’s text-book career has seen him in senior management roles in
some of the most famous properties in Italy and the UK, including Cavalieri Hilton,
Hotel Eden and St. Regis Grand in Rome, Savoy Hotel, Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
Hotel and Grosvenor House in London, Villa Medici and Excelsior in Florence and
Principe di Savoia in Milan.
About his return to the company, Biscioni said: “Royal Demeure has established
itself in a short time as one of the most innovative and exclusive privately owned
companies not only in Italy but in the world of hospitality. I’m excited about
the next stage of the development of the brand and look forward to bringing it
to a new level of international awareness.”
Paolo Biscioni trained at the prestigious Aurelio Saffi Hotel Institute in Florence
and Cornell University in Ithaca |
