Dennis Coates was born & educated in Hampshire UK. He is a management afficionado with over 30 years of hotel management experience in international luxury hotels. He graduated from King Edward 6 Grammar School & studied Hotel Management in the Savoy Hotel Group in London and Lausanne, Switzerland, Dennis managed several hotels before appointment as Consultant/Director of the H.C.S.Group in U.K.  He led many feasibility studies world-wide & advised several governments in Hotel & Tourism development. Other assignments included advising the Governments of New Zealand, Mid-East O.P.E.C.and he represented U.K. at an International convention in the Green Meadow Foundation in Switzerland. 

He is the author of 6 texts (Management themes) and leads many development seminars. He is married with 3 children and 9 grandchildren. His hobby has always been sailing & racing small sail boats. He lives in West Dorset, U.K.