Millennium Place Barsha Heights Appoints Luca Medda as General Manager

22 August 2024, Dubai - Millennium Place Barsha Heights is pleased to announce the appointment of Luca Medda as the new General Manager, effective immediately.

In his new role at Millennium Place Barsha Heights, Luca oversees all aspects of the hotel's operations, ensuring the consistent delivery of exceptional guest experiences, while also driving strategic initiatives to enhance the hotel’s market positioning.

Luca comments, “I’m thrilled to step into this role and align my strengths with the hotel’s vision. Guest satisfaction continues to be paramount, and I look forward to tapping even deeper in our teams’ collective potential to elevate our offering.”

Combining decades of expertise with dynamism and dedication

With over 30 years of extensive experience in the hospitality industry across nine countries, Luca brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this prestigious role.

An accomplished hotelier, Luca has held several senior positions, most recently serving as Cluster General Manager at the Grand Millennium Hotel & Millennium Executive Apartment in Muscat, Oman. During his tenure, he managed the largest hotel inventory in Muscat and led the successful pre-opening of Studio M in Muscat.

His strategic vision and operational excellence drove outstanding results, including a significant increase in hotel performance, guest satisfaction, and revenue growth.

Luca’s contributions to the hospitality sector

Luca’s career highlights include his role as General Manager at Centro Capital Doha Hotel by Rotana, where he oversaw the pre-opening of the first Centro property in Doha. Under his leadership, the hotel received the prestigious "Best Hotel Opening of 2016" award within the group, and swiftly established a strong market presence.

Throughout his career, Luca has demonstrated a remarkable ability to transform hotels into top-performing assets, owing to his dynamic leadership style, innovative thinking, and unwavering dedication to operational excellence.

He has successfully led teams through challenging periods, such as the global pandemic, while maintaining high employee retention rates and guest satisfaction.

Luca is an Italian citizen, fluent in four languages—Italian, English, French, and German—and holds multiple diplomas in Hotel Management, Business Economics, and languages from esteemed institutions across Europe.

Outside of work, Luca enjoys beach volleyball and travel.

About Millennium Place

Millennium Place is a lifestyle brand with happiness at its very core. Polite but carefree with bags of genuine energy, it aims to make all the guests feel happy and good about themselves. The brand intends to deliver a compelling guest experience in line with its promise to ‘Find your happy place’.

The talent are genuinely happy people, caring and committed to providing the best experiences possible for the guests. They consistently aim to put a smile on every guest, offering an incomparable journey with a cheerful, warm, caring and personal service to all. Combining comfort with leisure, everyone will feel welcomed and comfortable during the happiness journey at the hotel.

The cultural values of Millennium PLACE brand include Playful, Lifestyle, Appreciation, Childhood and Emotional. Millennium Place provides a place for everyone coming from all walks of life, from business to families, ambitious, creative, curious, cosmopolitan, passionate, forward-looking, plugged-in, youthful and experience seekers and more, it is a PLACE for everyone.

About Millennium & Copthorne Hotels

Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (M&C) is a London-based global hotel company, which owns, manages and operates over 145 hotels across 80 locations worldwide. Its properties are in key gateway cities such as London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Dubai, Doha, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong.

M&C is the hotel arm of Singapore-listed global real estate company City Developments Limited (CDL). M&C’s global brand – Millennium Hotels and Resorts (MHR) has four distinct hotel collections — Leng’s Collection, M Collection, Millennium Collection and Copthorne Collection — throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, New Zealand and the United States. Occupying the best locations around the world, MHR has the perfect address for business and leisure travellers. Listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996, M&C was delisted on 11 October 2019 following a successful privatisation exercise launched by CDL.

Millennium Hotels & Resorts Middle East & Africa currently operates 45 hotels with almost 15,000 keys in addition to 32 hotels in the pipeline across the region. From a single property in Abu Dhabi, Millennium Hotels & Resorts, Middle East & Africa has expanded into various neighbouring destinations and is now recognized as one of the fastest-growing regional hotel management companies in the Middle East & Africa. Along the way, the company has cultivated partnerships with reputable and respected owners.

For more information, visit millenniumhotels.com