John Morris Williams

John Mor­ris Williams

John Mor­ris Wil­li­ams’ hos­pit­al­ity career has taken him from his home town of Porth­madog in Wales to some of the most excit­ing des­tin­a­tions in the world: Scot­land, France, Bar­ba­dos, Saudi Ara­bia, Thai­l­and, and now Laos. Each has had its own chal­lenge and adven­ture, he says.

Mr Wil­li­ams’ early career was as a chef until he arrived in Thai­l­and and “moved out of the heat of the kit­chen and into the fire of run­ning hotels, build­ing them, and reshap­ing them to be prof­it­able, or not”. His focus in Laos is “giv­ing back to the com­munit­ies I work with, help­ing those who need help in the industry, and build­ing team­work and com­munity spir­it with oth­er stakeholders”.

Mr Wil­li­ams is co-founder of Lao travel portal WeAre­Lao.