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Robert Huyot held the
position of the President of InterContinental
Hotels from 1962 to 1971. He then became the
Chairman of the Board from 1971-1972.
Mr. Huyot has been a professional hotelier
since his graduation with honors from the Paris
School of Hotel Administration in 1928. After
several years of studies in the de luxe hotels
of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and England and three
years at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris as
Executive Assistant to the General Manager, he
came to the United States in 1936. French Born,
he was an U.S. citizen.
His hotel career in the United States began at
the Waldorf-Astoria in 1936 as a Manager of the
Foreign Department. Shortly thereafter he
became Manager of the Waldorf Towers, a
position he resigned in 1943 to become General
Manager of the Windsor Hotel in Montreal
Canada.
He left the Windsor in 1944 to become President
and General Manager of the Hotel Carlyle in New
York.
During his 16 years at the Carlyle, Mr. Huyot
was also Managing Director of the Westchester,
a 2,500-room de luxe apartment house which he
converted to hotel operation, in Washington,
D.C.; President of the Westchester Management
Corporation; Consultant to the Henry Hudson
Hotel in New York; and Consultant for the
planning and décor of the luxury hotel, te
Regency, which opened on Park Avenue in New
York in 1963.
While General Manager of the Carlyle, he was
instrumental in bring the three hotel
dignitaries from social, industrial and
diplomatic circles throughout the world. The
hotel, used by the late President Kennedy while
in Manhattan, has been called “The New York
White House.”
Mr. Huyot is a graduate, cum laude, of the
Lycee Lakanal, Paris; LL. B cum laude in law of
the Faculte de Droit, Paris; Business Law,
Columbia University, New York, and Hotel Law,
International Geneva Association Courses, New
York.
Additional educational background includes
extensive studies in real estate (he was a
member of the Columbia Society of Real Estate
Appraisers), accounting and finance, interior
design at the
New York
School of Interior Design, cabinet
making, oil painting, labor relations, public
speaking, and studies through all departments
in some of Europe’s most luxurious hotels,
including a year as an apprentice cook under an
Escoffier trained master chef at the Hotel de
Crillon.
He has been President of the Hotel Association
of New York City (serving as a board member
since 1945), Chairman of the American Hotel
Association-Residential Hotels Committee:
President, Hotel Executives Club; Director, New
York Convention and Visitors Bureau; and
Chairman of the Board, Hotel Association-Hotel
Trades Council Health Center. He was a Trustee
of the New York City’s Community College of
Applied Arts and Science for 7 years.
Mr. Huyot was named Hotelman of the Year in
1956 and awarded the Legion of Honor by
President Charles de Gaulle in 1960. He held a
Gold Medal from the Societe Culinaire
Philantripique for “Service to the Culinary
Arts” and the “Oscar Award” from International
Geneva Association for “Accomplishments in the
Hotel Industry.” He also received an award from
the New York University Hotel and Restaurant
Society for “Distinguished Achievements in
International Management and Advancing the
Profession in Innkeeping.”
Memberships in Food and Wine Societies include:
Les Amis d’Escoffier (Permanent Member of
“Comite de la Bonne Bouche”);
Officier-Commandeur of Les Chevaliers de
Tastevin; la Tripere d’Or; Lucullus Circle; La
Chaine de Rotisseurs; and Les Langoustes.
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