Raffles Hotels & Resorts

But the market is also becoming more competitive, with guests expecting deeper personalization and reasons to return that go beyond a beautiful room.

Today on The Luxury Item, I'm delighted to welcome Omer Acar, Chief Executive Officer of both Raffles and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

Since joining Accor in two thousand twenty-three to lead Raffles and taking on the Fairmont CEO role in January two thousand twenty-four, Omer has been guiding two of the world's most storied hotel brands through their next chapters of growth and relevance.

Omer also serves on Accor's Luxury and Lifestyle Executive Committee and represents the group in North America.

His career has been shaped by some of hospitality's most exacting and iconic environments, including Four Seasons, Harrods, The Ritz Paris, and Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris.

Today, he leads brands with very different but equally powerful propositions, Raffles with its intimacy, glamour, and highly personalized residential sensibility, and Fairmont with its grand scale, cultural presence, and role in the landmark celebrations and gatherings that define a city.

Welcome to The Luxury Item, Omer.

Good to hear you, Scott.

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What I've also enjoyed seeing is that the variety and if we just, as you said, sort of the hotel brands, just seeing the variety that are coming and have been in the market, you know, You know, even if it's across a portfolio like we do with Accor, you know, from the Raffles,

the Fairmonts, to the Movenpicks, the Swiss hotels, you know, the Mama shelters sometimes.

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So the B-Mobile Rewards Rural Leap MasterCard is one of the most rewarding when using it to pay for Fairmont or some select Accor hotel brands.

I should say those select Accor hotel brands are Novo Hotel, Soft Hotel, Raffles and Emblems Collection hotels.

You will earn 10 blue rewards points per dollar spent when using this card to pay for those states so with an average value of 0.67 cents per point for a blue point or blue rewards blue point the the correct terminology is blue point um that is a 6.7 return on your 10 times point spending No other card out in the market is going to give you 6.7% back on a Fairmont hotel stay, on those other Accor hotel stays.

The closest you're going to come with is the Amex Gold Rewards card or the Platinum card from Amex.

And that's on top of your credit card earning.

So that's big, so you're earning more points there.

Of course, they also have offers at Novatel and Raffles Hotels as well.

But again, the points earning does not stop there.