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Wednesday 17 July 2019

Hilton Appoints Vasco Baselli as

General Manager of Hilton Aruba

Caribbean Resort & Casino

MCLEAN, Va. – Hilton (NYSE: HLT) acting in general manager and area
announced the appointment of manager roles across Ecuador and
Vasco Baselli as general manager of Peru.
the 357-room Hilton Aruba Caribbean Most recently at Hilton Lima Miraflores,
Resort & Casino. Baselli most recently Baselli led the hotel successfully to
served as general manager of the receive numerous awards within
Hilton Lima Miraflores in Peru, where Hilton in the Americas including 2018
he oversaw the operation of this more Hotel of the Year (under 349 rooms),
than 200-room hotel, 13,000 sq. ft. of 2018 Award of Excellence and more.
meeting space, and more than 200 Individually, Baselli received Hilton’s
team members. highest honors as the 2018 Leader
of the Year (under 349 rooms) in the
Originally from Germany, Baselli is a Americas region. Baselli brings an
more than 30-year hospitality industry exceptional operations and food and
veteran who started his career as a beverage background, as well as a
Line Cook Apprentice at the Inter- proven track record for driving guest
Continental Hotel Düsseldorf hotel in and team member engagement,
Germany. Over the course of more while ensuring positive, proactive
than three decades, Baselli developed owner relations. Given his proven
his skills within the hospitality industry. leadership roles, he is excited about
His first 17 years focused on food the new destination and ready to take
and beverage operations at hotels on the Hilton Aruba Caribbean Resort
in Germany, Venezuela, Malaysia, & Casino during its 60th anniversary
while the latter 10+ years saw Baselli year.q

Under One Sky: 100 years of Modern Astronomy

cal, regional, national and global ordinator of the Astronomy & Soci-
scales in over 100 countries. This ety group. Pedro is the president
talk will give an overview of the last of the International Astronomical
100 years of astronomy and its im- Union Commission on Communi-
plications for society-at-large. cating Astronomy with the Public.
This event will take place on
Speaker Wednesday July 17, 2019 at the
Pedro Rodrigues Dos Santos Russo University of Aruba from 7:30PM-
is assistant professor of astronomy 10:30PM. For more informa-
& society at Leiden Observatory tion check out the facebook
and the department of Science page Space and Nature Aruba
Communication & Society and co- Foundation.q

ORANJESTAD — To celebrate the nomical discoveries and to support
100th anniversary of the Interna- the use of astronomy as a tool for
tional Astronomical Union (IAU) the education, development and di-
Space and Nature Aruba Founda- plomacy under the central theme
tion will be presenting a lecture "Under One Sky".
called “Under One Sky: 100 years The goals of the IAU100 include
of Modern Astronomy”, at the Uni- increased awareness of progress
versity of Aruba. and excitement in astronomy over
the past century, to support and
In 2019, the International Astro- improve an inclusive, egalitarian
nomical Union (IAU) is celebrating and diverse astronomy commu-
its 100th anniversary. To commem- nity, and to increase awareness of
orate this centenary milestone, exciting developments in the next
the IAU has organized a year-long 100 years of astronomy. Through-
celebration (IAU100) to increase out 2019, thousands of activities
awareness of a century of astro- for IAU100 are taking place at lo-