Joerg Hontheim rejoins Marriott as Senior Director of Operations for South China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
The former Atlantis Sanya Vice President returns to Marriott International to oversee operations across South China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
Sasha Brown
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Marriott International has appointed Joerg Hontheim as Senior Director of Operations for South China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Hontheim announced the move on LinkedIn, and it marks a return to Marriott, where he previously held senior operations and food and beverage roles in China.
Joerg Hontheim’s new remit
In the role, Hontheim oversees operations across Marriott’s hotels in South China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. He is based in Hong Kong, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Career background
Hontheim joins from Atlantis Sanya on China’s Hainan Island, where he was Vice President from August 2024 to February 2026. Before that he spent three years as Area Director of Food and Beverage Operations at Outrigger Hospitality Group and served as Hotel Manager of Grand Hyatt Jeju in South Korea.
From 2016 to 2018 he was General Manager Operations at YTL Hotels in Kuala Lumpur, covering JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton and Starhill Gallery, while also acting as a food and beverage industry adviser to YTL’s International College of Hotel Management. He previously led luxury lifestyle food and beverage retail in Malaysia as Country General Manager at Valiram.
His earlier Marriott career included Director of Operations at JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai at Tomorrow Square, chairing the company’s Shanghai hotels food and beverage cluster and sitting on its Asia Pacific food and beverage advisory board. As Director of Food and Beverage at Renaissance Hotels, he received an Asia Pacific Food and Beverage Leadership Award in 2010.
Why the appointment matters
Hontheim brings a mix of resort, city hotel and food and beverage leadership across Greater China and Southeast Asia to a region that spans some of Asia’s busiest gateway and leisure markets. His return also adds to recent leadership moves at Marriott in the region, including the appointment of Ming Choo Ling as CHRO for Asia Pacific excluding China. For more from the region, see our report on Morpheus Macau’s three Michelin Keys.
