Jean-Luc Naret

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ABOUT JEAN-LUC NARET

With now almost 30 years of experience in the industry, Jean-Luc Naret has created his own consulting company to help investors and hoteliers to work together and to generate creative ideas for this industry. His thorough understanding and experience of operating and strategically leading hotels and resorts for luxury hotel brands in Europe, Africa, The Middle East, The Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Asia, as well as his F&B expertise, make Jean-Luc the ideal mind to lead this new company. His international management experiences in resorts include high profile, unusual, and multi-award-winning openings such as; One & Only St Geran, One & Only Ocean Club, Trianon Palace in Versailles, The Residence in Mauritius, Sandy Lane in Barbados, the Serena collection, the Heritage Resorts Collection in Mauritius the ultimate One & Only Reethi Rah in the Maldives and more recently the entire collection of La Reserve Hotels. While at the helm of the legendary Michelin Guides, his term saw the international development of these famous Michelin Guides with the launching of new destinations such as New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hong Kong and Macau among other cities. His passion for food and for media, turn this French company into a global brand in revealing the talents of the Award Winning Chefs around the world. He appeared in most major publications around the world, and also in a lot of shows such as Martha Stewart,Oprah, The Early show, 60 minutes. He created his own consulting company in 2019 and he is regularly invited to speak at various hotel conferences around the world. Jean-Luc is a former graduate from the Hotel School of Paris and a post alumni of the Cornell Hotel School. He was also been knighted by the Prime Minister of France in 2007 as Chevalier de la Legion d\'Honneur.