PORTRAIT – Elected to head the Union of Hotel Trades and Industries, this “alchemist” promises to defend a sector in crisis.
Applause on the ground floor of 211, rue de l’Université, in the seventh arrondissement of the capital. The outlaws and backbenchers of the Hotel Trades and Industries Union, the mighty Umih, thronged to the union’s training center to induct their new “confederal president“. At 63, Thierry Marx has just been elected to the post with more than 70% of the vote, in tandem with the Nice hotelier Eric Abihssira, now vice-president. A proper press release salutes “gathering spirit”while hotel and catering specialists send their “most warm and sincere congratulations” to the person concerned.
In the ranks, however, the smiles of facade conceal a suspicion of circumspection
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