Awards & Recognitions

European Hotel Manager of the Year

EHMA

PURSUING EXCELLENCE

Emmy Stoel is the "European Hotel Manager of the Year 2023"

Emmy Stoel, General Manager of the Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam, is this year’s winner of the prestigious award “European Hotel Manager of the Year” that EHMA – European Hotel Managers Association – grants annually to an active member who has achieved outstanding results in hotel management during the previous year and throughout his/her career. The Award was presented to her during EHMA’s Annual General Assembly held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 10th to 12th February 2023. Emmy’s recent achievements include several prizes received during the recent difficult times of the pandemic as a result of the hotel’s great social involvement under her guidance.

“Emmy’s dedication to hospitality is particularly remarkable as she has a proven record of strengthening the company’s commitment to gender equality”, comments Panos Almyrantis, President of EHMA, “With regard to sustainability, besides carrying out an impressive range of initiatives, her projects aim at people safety, care and well-being and helping the local community”. Indeed, Emmy Stoel has a special focus on social, cultural and personnel values that makes her a remarkable General Manager.

With a long history of working in the luxury hospitality industry, an expert in gastronomy and hospitality management, Emmy Stoel graduated from Hotel Management School Maastricht, with a GMP from Cornell university she started her career in 1989 at Hotel de Arendshoeve. In the following years she held various management positions at Hilton hotels and Hotel Okura Amsterdam, where she worked as General Manager for 6 years. The Accor Group appointed Emmy Stoel to the position of General Manager of Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam in 2019. She has been recognized with several prizes, among which the EHMA Sustainability Award by Diversey 2021, the Virtuoso Culture Award 2021 for her “Artists in Residence” project, Villegiature Awards 2021 – Grand Prize Best Service in a Hotel in the World. Recently she was elected among the Top 100 Best Hotel General Managers for 2022.

CONGRATULATIONS EMMY !

EHMA

AWARD

European Hotel Manager of the Year

Previous editions winners:

1990
Dagmar Woodward

Inter-Continental Paris, France

1990
Maurice Urech

Hotel Villa Principe Leopoldo, Lugano, Switzerland

1990
Hans R. Fritz

Rome Cavalieri Hilton, Italy

1990
Gianni Van Daalen

Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany

1990
Francisco Alcaraz

Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque, Tenerife, Spain

1990
Giuliano Corsi

Hotel Danieli, Venice, Italy

1990
Emanuel Berger

Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa, Interlaken, Switzerland

1990
Jean-Louis Leimbacher

Hotel du Palais, Biarritz, France

2000
Kurt Dohnal

The Kessler Collection Europe, Vienna, Austria

2000
Paul van Wijk

Dolce Hotels and Resorts, Brussels, Belgium

2000
Thomas Noll

Grand Hotel Europe, St. Petersburg, Russia

2000
Francesco Brunetti

The Westin Palace, Milan, Italy

2000
Mario Ferraro

Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice, Italy

2000
Hans Gerst

Raphael Hotelgesellschaft GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

2000
François Delahaye

Hotel Plaza Athénée, Paris, France

2000
Panos Almyrantis

Daios Cove Luxury Resort & Villas, Crete, Greece

2000
Pierre Ferchaud

Hotel Metropole Montecarlo, Monaco

2000
Alessandro Cabella

Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Italy

2000
Hans J. Kauschke

Steigenberger Grandhotel Handelshof, Leipzig, Germany

2000
Patrick Recasens

Pullman Timi Ama Sardegna, Italy

2000
Dominique Nicolas Godat

Hotel Metropol Moscow, Russia

2000
Pawel Lewtak

Polonia Palace Hotel, Polonia

2000
Guilherme Augusto Costa

Four Seasons Hotel
The Ritz, Lisbon

2000
Emmy Stoel

Sofitel Legend The Grand
Amsterdam

2000
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