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Geschichte der AICR International

1964

L’Amicale des Chefs de Réception (ACR) des Grands Hôtels de la Côte D’Azur is created on the initiative of:

  • René Jayles, Front Office Manager of the Carlton in Cannes
  • Jean-Claude Irondelle of the Grand Hotel du Cap, Cap D’Antibes
  • René Biat of the Hotel Plaza, Nice
  • Henri Maria of La Réserve de Beaulieu
  • Maurice Tirel of the Hotel Negresco, Nice

They are soon joined by Jean Boeri, Front Office Manager of the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo and Henri Allavena of the Hotel Martinez, Cannes.

1965

Their Parisian counterparts convene to found the Amicale of Paris of which Gérard Colbert, Front Office Manager of the Hotel Ritz, Paris is elected first President.

The two amicales adopt the logo designed by Jean-Paul Desmarestz. The statutes are adopted and registered at the prefecture of Paris.

From the outset eminent hoteliers accept the position of Honorary President of each of the two amicales.

For the ACR Côte D’Azur, Maître Paul Augier, President-Director-General of the Hotel Negresco in Nice.

For the ACR Paris, Mr Lucien Barrière, President-Director-General of hotels and casino of Deauville.

7 – 8 September

Mr Lucien Barrière invites the ACR Paris to a week end at the Hôtel Normandy at Deauville. They decide to create a national amicable.

1966

Madame Paul Augier lavishly welcomes to her Negresco the assembly composed of the Amicale Nationale des Sous-Directeurs et Chefs de Réception des Grands Hotles de France, under the effective presidency of the Secretary of State for Tourism, Mr Pierre Dumas.

Registration of new statutes at the prefecture of Paris.

Clause Lemercier, Resident Manager of the Hotel George V in Paris, becomes the first President of the ACR, and Mr Louis Colonelli, Director of the same hotel its first Honorary President.

1967

1st National Congress of the ACR in Paris

The ACR Paris, under the new presidency of René Carle, Front Office Manager of the Plaza Athénée, numbers 53 members; the Côte D’Azur under the presidency of René Jayles, Front Office Manager of the Carlton in Cannes, 25 members. Jean Potfer, Director General of La Réserve de Beaulieu becomes the second Honorary President of the Côte D’Azur.

1969

2nd National Congress of the ACR in Monte Carlo

The ACR Paris now numbers 60 members and a new president, Guy Moreau, Resident Manager of the Hotel Ritz.

The Côte D’Azur twin, 40 members and the same president, René Jayles.

The French ACR seeks to export the amicalist spirit overseas. Contacts are made with Germany, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland which bore fruit in 1973 with the foundation of the Amicale Suisse, by Claudio Guida and Otto Berger.