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KEVIN MALYON has joined the Forum Hotel London in Kensington as executive chef. For the past six years he has worked as executive head chef at the Stakis St Ermins hotel, also in London.

CYRUS TODIWALA, chef-director of London's Café Spice Namaste restaurants, is

one of four new appointees to the Government's National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets.

STUART MAY, chairman of Pannell Kerr Forster Hotel, Leisure & Tourism Services, has joined the board of the Academy of Food & Wine Service.

AILEEN MARTIN, sales director of Ulster-based Hastings Hotels Group, has been elected as

Northern Ireland chairman for the Meetings Industry Association.

DAVID O'REILLY has joined the three-star Tralle hotel in Bournemouth as food services manager to develop this operation to four-star level. He comes from the Holiday Inn in London's Mayfair, where he held the same position.

MARTIN RINCK has been promoted to deputy chief executive officer at Mîvenpick

Restaurants International. He was director of operations for Switzerland, Great Britain and Austria.

Halliday Catering Services has recruited its new sales director SIMON ESNER from Initial, where he was business development manager. His appointment follows that of WENDY HARRISON, formerly Eurest's sales executive for Wales, as operations director for Halliday's City business.

BERNARD BLOODWORTH has returned to Linden Hall hotel at Longhorsley in Northumberland,

where he started his career as a trainee manager, to take up the role of director. He rejoins from Close House, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, where he was general manager.

Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts has taken on IAIN MILLAR, formerly a consultant with hospitality recruitment specialist Portfolio, as its regional training manager. He will oversee training in the group's five UK hotels in London and Edinburgh.

Granada's Posthouse has appointed DOMINIC McVEY as its regional general manager

for Scotland. He previously performed the same function in the North-east of England.

Monaco-based Rafael Hotels has taken on GREG WARD as director of sales in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia for its seven worldwide properties. Ward was sales and marketing director, UK and Ireland, for Corinthia Hotels International.

Scottish Highland Hotels has recruited deputy manager DARREN CANT from Eastbourne's

Quality hotel to fill the same slot at its four-star Hellaby Hall hotel in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Also new is RACHEL HARDING, former deputy club manager for the PPP fitness

centre in Tunbridge Wells, who will manage the hotel's new Bodysense Health & Leisure Club opening this month.ter 1995. Pric