On a recent trip to South Africa, Tomas Lorenzo discovered that the hotel’s rooftop garden was in a cage to keep the herbs safe from meandering giraffes. “Every property is unique in the sense that it has to adapt to its environment,” says Lorenzo, CEO of Torre Lorenzo Development Corporation (TLDC). “When I go abroad, I don’t just enjoy a hotel or a resort like a regular guest. I ask the management to show me, if they allow me, everything behind the scenes, the back of house. I ask to see their kitchens, their laundry room, their sewage treatment plant. I’ll see everything that the guests don’t see because it interests me more,” says Lorenzo, a hotelier himself, counting Dusit D2 Davao and Dusit Thani Residence in Davao City, as well as Dusit Thani Lubi Plantation Resort in Davao de Oro, as part of TLDC’s hospitality portfolio. Lorenzo says his..
