Malizan Zakaria is an Ipoh born lad who has been in the hospitality industry for nearly 33 years. His earliest career started as a Banquet part time worker at the tender year of 16 at The Royal Casuarina Hotel in Ipoh. Through his determination and hard work, he was offered to be a Restaurant Waiter in 1989. By 1991 he became the youngest F&B Captain in Sheraton Langkawi Resort, Kedah. When he again became the youngest Restaurant Manager 3 years later, he was given the opportunity to work at Sheraton Utama Hotel, Brunei and then Sheraton Labuan Hotel. He received the “Manager of the quarter” award from both hotels. After two and a half years he joined the Promenade Hotel Kota Kinabalu to become the Food & Beverage Manager. There, he leads his F&B team the making of the longest Swiss Roll in Malaysian Book of Records. Later he furthers his experience as a Food & Beverage Manager in Allson Klana Resort, Seremban. Under his leadership, his F&B department won 7 medals in the 7th Penang International Salon Gastronomique 1999 and 11 medals in the Culinary Malaysia’99 at PWTC KL. In September 2001, he left for new challenges in Kuala Lumpur where he worked at the Concorde Hotel KL. He was in charge of one of the busiest and the most happenings F&B outlets in KL. During his tenure there, he realised that given the opportunity, he is ready to take on a bigger responsibility, and he joined Park City Everly Hotel Bintulu, Sarawak to become the Hotel Manager at the age of 32. In August 2005, the hotel was awarded “Excellence in Hotel Services” for 4 star city hotel category by the Malaysia Tourism Award 2004 and a finalist of Hospitality Asia Platinum award 2005 / 2006. Due to his good track of records with Sheraton, in August 2006 he was offered the position of Director of Food & Beverage back to Sheraton Langkawi Resort with the main objective to coordinate a project of renovating the F&B outlets and to bring the department level to a greater height. After a year of service with Sheraton, he took up an offer as Director of Food & Beverage at Sofitel Vinpearl Resort & Spa Vietnam to gain an international experience and to lead a bigger F&B team and more challenging scope of job. At this resort, he led the team to be certified by ISO 22,000 for the Food & Beverage Department. After a year abroad, he was offered to be back in Malaysia to take a job as General Manager in a 5 star Boutique Resort with 97 rooms including 13 Royal Suites in the east cost of Malaysia under the management of Ri-Yaz Hotels & Resorts at Pulau Duyong Kuala Terengganu before joining Concorde & Hard Rock Management Group as a General Manager at Sutra Beach Resort & Spa located at Setiu, Terengganu. Later the resort won a prestige award “Excellent in Services” 3 star resort category by the Malaysian Tourism Award 2008 / 2009. Malizan continue his career journey returning to Vietnam in 2012 with the same owner to managed Vinpearl Luxury Resort Nha Trang, a 5 star luxury resort consist of 84 villas with attached private pool in each villa. After a year contract, he joined Holiday Villa Resort Cherating before seconded to Tabung Haji Hotel Kuala Terengganu under the same management. In 2014 he grabbed an opportunity to be back to his hometown when he was offered a job at Casuarina@Meru Hotel, Ipoh as General Manager and after 2 years he joined Lost World of Tambun Theme Park, Hotel & Spa ranking top 10 theme park in South East Asia as a General Manager. While he is still with The Lost World of Tambun, he moved a step higher in his hotel career when he built a 24 rooms budget hotel in Ipoh & he name it M Motel Meru,Ipoh. He left Lost World of Tambun to focus on the new opening of his 1st own hotel. After his hotel opened in March 2017 and running smoothly by his family, he got an offer back to Vietnam and joined L’Alya Ninh Van Bay on 12 July 2017. A luxury boutique resort with 33 villas and run with a team of 218 staff! A top notch luxurious villas with butler service and personalise touch! Here he received “Employee of the year” award by the parents company Conasi in 2018 & again in the following year he got “Conasi Award 2019”.

Easy going & versatile. No problem to work either for city hotels, or resort at remote areas and luxury villa or resort. Also have experienced in pre opening of hotels and resorts. 5 years experience in Vietnam in 3 different resorts. Able to start work in July 2020.