Four Points in Havana closed: According to a published report, Marriott International’s Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Havana, Cuba, is closed as of September 1 after the U.S. government suspended its license to operate hotels in Cuba. (According to the hotel’s website, it is now called the Quinta Avenida Habana Hotel.) The hotel, opened in 2016, was the only one in Cuba run by a U.S. company. The Treasury Department told Marriott that operations in Cuba have to cease before August 31 and that the company will not be allowed to manage other hotels on the island as planned, according to the Miami Herald in a June article. The inauguration of the Four Points Sheraton hotel in 2016, the first run by an American company since 1959, became a symbol of renewed foreign relations with the communist country under U.S. President Barack Obama.
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New exec at Deutsche: Ulrich Johannwille will become the new chief financial officer and director of human resources of Frankfurt-based Steigenberger Hotels AG when he takes over from Matthias Heck on November 1. Previously, Johannwille held a number of senior membership roles at German charter airline Condor Flugdienst GmbH. He spent more than 10 years as chief financial officer and also acted as the airline’s head of controlling from 2006 to 2009.