Anoop Suri is a hotelier from India. He was born on 18 March 1971 in an industrial colony of Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) in the city of Haridwar. He is from a middle class family. His father Amrit Lal Suri worked at BHEL and his mother Prem Suri was a homemaker. He is married to Niketa, and has two children who are called Sidharth Suri and Saloni Suri.
He finished his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 (central school) in Haridwar in 1988 and got his Hotel Management Diploma from the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and applied Nutrition.
In 1991 he started his professional career as a management trainee in cost controls with Bakers Basket, a unit of Blue Diamond Hotels, Pune. He shifted back to Goa, where he had finished his studies in hotel management. He joined one of the oldest luxury hotels, Fidalgo, as an operations management trainee, and was trained in all departments. He was part of the Executive Management Team as an assistant to the General Manager.
His professional timeline is:
1992: F&B Manager, Hotel Reis Magos, Goa, India
1993: Manager Operations, Hotel Atish, Goa, India
1995: General Manager, Hotel Green Park, Goa, India
1995: Resort Manager, Shambhala Mountain Resort, Sikkim, India
2000: General Manager, ITC Fortune Park Hotels, Darjeeling and Kolkata, India
2002: General Manager, Nirula Hotels, Panipat, India
2004: Resort Manager, Sterling Days Inn Resorts (two resorts), Ootacamund, India
2005: General Manager, Royal Goan Beach Resorts (Karma group), Goa, India
2009: General Manager, Sayaji Hotels, Indore, India
2010: General Manager, TGB Hotels, Surat, India
In March 2015 he made a decision to go to the Kurdistan region of north Iraq to work on a project called the Korek Mountain Resort & Spa on Mount Korek. At that time he was interviewed by RudawTV for their show Made in Kurdistan.[5] and Al Zazeera.[6]
In 2016 he was appointed Director of Leminscate Hospitality Initiative Pvt. Ltd.[7] and in 2020 he became Executive director.[8]
He is also a motivational writer and guru. He has written several articles on hotel management and travel related topics that have been published in various magazines and trade newspapers. He also undertakes lectures and presentations.[9]
His study books on hotel management include:
Front Office Management
Food & Beverage Service
Food Production
Accommodation Operation & Hotel Maintenance
Engineering for a Private Hotel Management Institute
He is working in close cooperation with Global Hospitality Initiative to produce online courses and has offered the first course "Managing Covid19 in Hotel industry".[8]