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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Tristan Rutherford

Child-size bathrobes and bedtime music: meet the Singapore hotel boss making young guests feel at home

Linda Reddy, manager of Hilton Singapore Orchard.
Linda Reddy, manager of Hilton Singapore Orchard. Photograph: Chris Schalkx/The Guardian

Linda Reddy is hotel manager of the largest Hilton in the Asia-Pacific region, Hilton Singapore Orchard. How she got there is a tale of teamwork. That’s because Reddy is of Indian descent, born in South Africa during the apartheid regime, at a time when she was constantly told “hospitality isn’t for you”.

The naysayers messed with the wrong girl. In Reddy’s words: “That pushed me to think, when someone says you shouldn’t do something, maybe that’s the reason you should do it.”

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