Luxury hotel group Jumeirah has appointed Marnie Kovacs as its director of global sales for the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. Based in the global sales office in London, Kovacs, an American national, brings 16 years of sales and marketing experience gained in both in-house and agency roles for high-profile businesses in the UK such as CHI Hotels & Resorts, Oberoi Hotels & Resorts and Ian Schrager Hotels, whilst also having worked for Millennium & Copthorne in the UK and New York.