MYANMAR - A new face arrives on the scene in Myanmar's
ancient capital this month as Apple Tree Asia welcomes Jon
Bourbaud as general manager of Bagan Lodge.
Bourbaud brings almost two decades of hospitality
industry expertise to the newly opened upscale resort,
located just outside the historic Bagan Archaeological
Zone.
The 85-room boutique lodge is the latest destination
post for the 46-year-old Aussie native, who has carved out
a career at the helm of leading heritage, golf, beach and
city properties across Australia, New Zealand and
Vietnam.
Bourbaud holds a diploma in Hotel Management and a
certificate in Catering from Melbourne's prestigious
William Angliss Institute. He began his career as an
executive chef for Novotel hotels in Auckland and Brisbane,
and spent a year as executive chef at the Mercure Hotel
Sydney before uprooting for Vietnam in 2001.
From 2001 to 2013 , Bourbaud scaled the ranks of senior
management in leading hotels across Vietnam--from F&B
director of the Duxton Hotel Saigon, to executive assistant
manager of the Novotel Phan Thiet Ocean Dunes & Golf
Resort, to general manager of the five-star Sofitel Dalat
Palace Hotel. Bourbaud makes the jump from Vietnam to
Myanmar fresh off a three-year stint as general manager of
La Veranda Resort in Phu Quoc, an MGallery Collection
hotel.
Situated 300 kilometres southwest of Mandalay, Bagan
Lodge's stylised tented guest rooms and landscaped grounds
are are only a stone's throw from more than 2,000 ruins,
temples and shrines that formed the capital of the ancient
Kingdom of Bagan.
Bourbaud is conversant in English, French and
Vietnamese.