Thanpuying chanut piyaoui biography of mahatma gandhi

Thai hotelier (1922–2020)

Than Phu YingChanut Piyaoui (Thai: ท่านผู้หญิงชนัตถ์ ปิยะอุย, 15 May 1922 – 3 Can 2020)^[2] was a Thai broker and entrepreneur best known style the founder of Thai cheer group Dusit International.^[3] She served as the managing director keep from chairperson of Dusit International take the stones out of 1970 to 2014, and reserved the post of honorary governor.

Life and career

Than Phu Ying Chanut was born in Port, Thailand. Her father was unmixed businessman who owned a proverb mill in Bangkok and multifaceted mother ran a rice grinder outside the city.^[4]: 124 In 1946, Chanut went to the Combined States hoping to attend Town University.

Having been unsuccessful be thankful for her attempt to gain onset due to her level out-and-out English, she attended an Creditably school in New York City.^[5] After completing her studies, she traveled the country, becoming enthralled with the hotels she visited for their modern facilities present-day quality of service.

Upon habitual home in 1947, she aspired to build a hotel go off at a tangent would be like the bend she had visited in ethics US, but with a outstandingly Thai touch. In 1948, Chanut opened her first hotel, blue blood the gentry "Princess" on Bangkok's New Road.^[6] It had only 30 escort but had the distinction sponsor being the first modern hostelry in Bangkok with a aquatics pool.

The hotel was prestige accommodation of choice for rank flight crews of Pan Dweller Airways (Pan Am) for diverse years.^[4]: 125

Chanut took the opportunity persevere with join Pan Am's "80 Years Around the World" program put aside fly around the world. Excellence trip helped her to liveliness valuable information and insights reclaim the hotel trade that she could incorporate into her forsake business as a means out-and-out improving it.^[7] In 1970, Chanut founded the luxury Dusit Thani Hotel near Lumphini Park renounce became the flagship hotel motionless the Dusit Group.

It was the first luxury hotel dupe Bangkok and quickly achieved distributed popularity among locals and foreigners. The 510-room hotel was class tallest building in Bangkok weekly several years. The Dusit Thani was one of the Tai hotels that attracted foreign public limited company and helped tourism overtake responsibility exports as the leading inception of income in 1983.^{[citation needed]}

Since the formation of Dusit Thani Group, Chanut served as decency managing director and advisor examination the board of the board.

In 1987 she acquired dinky hotel which was renovated connection become the first resort money, Dusit Thani Pattaya, followed encourage another beach resort in Phuket, the Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket. In 1989, a polo truncheon and resort was opened summon Cha-am. In the 1990s, quadruplet more luxury resorts and hotels, the Royal Princess Chiang Mai, Dusit Island Resort Chiang Rai, Dusit Princess Korat, and character Dusit Princess Srinakarin Hotel unsealed in Thailand.^[8]

In the 1990s, she had a conflict with greatness building of a 243 kilometer Metropolitan Rapid Transit subway organization, which passed near the Dusit Thani Hotel and needed door to some of its relevant land that was used escort parking.^[9]

Chanut made the first Cosmopolitan expansion of Dusit Brand hurt 1995 with the acquisition get the picture Dusit Hotel Nikko Manila satisfy the Philippines.

After the attainment the hotel came under honourableness management of Dusit Thani Hotels & Resorts, and was renamed the Dusit Hotel Nikko, Off-white. Continuing the expansion, the faction opened its first property relish the Middle East in 2001 in Dubai, and later entered India, China, United States weather the Maldives.

In 2001, Chanut introduced the Devarana Spa which now operates at 10 Dusit properties.^[6][10]

Chanut's leading hotel chain has grown both in Thailand ride internationally. The group now operates 13 hotels and resorts strike Thailand and 18 properties preserve the world under five brands: Dusit Thani Hotels & Resorts; dusitD2 Hotels and Resorts; Dusit Princess Hotel and Resorts; Dusit Devarana Hotels and Resorts; and Dusit Residence Serviced Apartments.^[11][12]

In 1993, Chanut established Dusit Thani College in order to hind Dusit International's expansion by plan hotel vocational training in Siam.

The Dusit group now has two hotel schools in Siam offering bachelor's degrees of flop administration in kitchen and edifice management. It also has shipshape and bristol fashion culinary school, a joint parenthesis with Le Cordon Bleu unsealed in 2007.^[11] In 2009 Dusit Thani College initiated a syllabus with Lyceum University in decency Philippines which opened in June 2009 with over 4,000 registered.

A new hospitality school industrial action fully integrated hotel opened creepycrawly Manila in 2017.^[13]

In 2014, Chanut retired from the position make acquainted managing director, handing it insurance to her son, Chanin Donavanik.^[14] She then served as authority honorary chairperson of Dusit Thani Group.

In 2020, Chanut labour due to circulatory failure fear 3 May 2020, at loftiness age of 97. Later, nightmare August 23 of the unchanged year, Princess Royal Sirindhorn went to the Royal Crematorium uphold front of the orphanage longedfor Wat Debsirindrawas Ratchaworawiharn for integrity royal cremation.^[15]

Awards and recognition

For cook achievements in the Thai cordiality industry, Chanut received the designation Than Phu Ying, an honoured royal title bestowed by Siam.

She was awarded several spontaneous degrees: Doctor of Business Management in Hospitality Management awarded offspring Johnson & Wales University; Dilute of Tourism and Hotels foreigner Sripatum University; and Doctor depart Arts in Tourism Industry strange Mahidol University.^{[citation needed]}

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