Antonio Saponara is general manager of Capella Bangkok, Thailand, a post held since 2024. (source, 2026)
The hotel is No. 2 on The World's 50 Best Hotels 2026, and holds three MICHELIN Keys, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating, a place on the Condé Nast Traveler Gold List 2025 and membership of The Leading Hotels of the World.
Career
- General Manager, Patina Maldives, Fari Islands, Maldives (source)
- Pre-opening General Manager, Bulgari Hotel & Residences Moscow, Moscow (source)
- Opening General Manager, Bulgari Hotel Beijing, Beijing (source)
- Hotel Manager, The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai, Pudong, Shanghai (source)
- General Manager, The Surin Phuket, Phuket 2010–2013 (source)
- Executive Assistant Manager, then Hotel Manager, Amanpuri, Phuket (source)
Training
- Diploma in hospitality (first-person interview; moved to London in 1991 after earning it) (source)
Recognition
- Capella Bangkok named World's Best Hotel and Asia's Best Hotel by World's 50 Best Hotels (hotel-level award, not an award to the individual) (2024) (source)
Context
What the role involves, and what the best in it say about the work, is set out in the general manager's role. The people who run each of the world's leading hotels are listed in who runs the world's best hotels.
Also in Bangkok
- Lubosh Barta, Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River
- Supaksorn "Ice" Jongsiri, Sorn
- Thomas and Mathias Sühring, Sühring
- Paul Jones, Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok
Checked 10 November 2026. Corrections are welcome at press@theluxuryofattention.com.