Rayan Aranha

General Manager

Novotel ibis Chennai OMR and Novotel Chennai SIPCOT

Rayan Aranha has been appointed as the General Manager for Novotel Chennai OMR, ibis Chennai OMR and Novotel Chennai SIPCOT. An industry veteran, Rayan has over two decades of hospitality experience in Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Operations. Rayan is currently in his 10th year at Accor India, where he started as the Director of Sales and Marketing at Grand Mercure Bengaluru and later moved to various hotels such ibis Mumbai Airport, Pullman and Novotel New Delhi and Grand Mercure Mysuru as head of operations. His most recent assignment was with Grand Mercure Bengaluru as the General Manager. Rayan Aranha holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and is an alumni of SP Jain and IIM- Bengaluru. He was also part of AccorHotels’ prestigious International Hospitality Management Program (IHMP), run by Academie Accor Singapore. He was awarded the General Manager of the year for Accor India in 2019.

Rayan likes to unwind in his home kitchen, creating delicacies for his friends and family. He is also an avid traveller who is in constant search of unique culinary experiences.

No darkness would ever settle upon those lamps, as no darkness had settled upon them for hundreds of years. It seemed dreadful that the town should blaze for ever in the same spot; dreadful at least to people going away to adventure upon the sea, and beholding it as a circumscribed mound, eternally burnt, eternally scarred. From the deck of the ship the great city appeared a crouched and cowardly figure, a sedentary miser.