Our Team:

Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure Business Broker

Suresh Subramaniam is a passionate hotelier and is proud to represent Tourism Properties in the Wellington Region. His work focuses on helping accommodation and hospitality business providers achieve their goals when it comes time to selling their businesses. His work also focuses on helping small business (accommodation, hospitality and tourism) broaden their knowledgeable and skills in revenue management, financial management, distribution and marketing while building a respected brand in the small accommodation space.

His real passion in hotels started when he attended the famed Les Roches, Swiss Hotel Management School in Bluche, Valais, Switzerland and then went on to complete his Bachelors in Hotel Management at the Scottish Hotel School at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is a specialist hotel and hospitality professional with solid experience in Hotel management in New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Scotland, USA, Australia, India and Thailand. Until early 2018 Suresh has been in General Managerial positions for small and large International brands such as the Grand Central Group and Accor which has brought him to many exotic destinations including India and Thailand. He was also Accor Hotels Brand Manager for Novotel for Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Korea and Japan and this helped him realise his passion to start and operate a brand that people could relate to in the small accommodation (Boutique Hotel/Motel/Hostel) sector and relocated to Wellington to start the U Hotel Group in mid-2018.

Suresh is extremely well networked and is a member of various networking groups such as Hospitality New Zealand, Skal Wellington and Tourism Industry Aotearoa which has exposed him to a large network of investors and professionals. Now based in Wellington with his wife, Katrina who is also his
business partner and 2 children, Suresh is focused on assisting and empowering independent hotel and motel owners realise their life goals, as he is also a business owner operating as a tenant and a landlord. Suresh is able to relate by providing powerful insights into how business owners can achieve higher success by sharing the knowledge gained during his many years as a leader in the industry.