Carmen Paz New Project Management Director for Colliers Hospitality
Colliers appoints Carmen Paz as Project Management Director for hospitality, bringing 20 years and 50 hotel projects across 10 countries.
Punita Thakur 
MADRID, May 19, 2026 — Colliers has appointed Carmen Paz as Project Management Director specialising in Hospitality, joining the Colliers Architecture team in Spain. Paz brings more than 20 years of experience in hotel project management and has led over 50 hotel developments totalling 9,500 rooms across more than 10 countries.
The hire adds dedicated hotel technical leadership to Colliers at a moment when Spain's hotel investment market is running hard. The country recorded €4.3 billion in hotel asset investment in 2025, with Colliers acting as the leading advisor in the Spanish market closing 11 hotel transactions totalling €815 million across the year.
Carmen Paz Joins Colliers from Minor Hotels International
Paz spent the past seven years at Minor Hotels International as Director of Projects and Construction, where she oversaw project and construction management across the group's Northern European portfolio. Her work there covered cost estimation, planning, design coordination and final asset delivery, keeping hotel operations aligned with construction teams throughout each project.
Before that, she built her career managing hotel developments across midscale to luxury segments, working across new openings, full refurbishments and repositioning projects with multidisciplinary teams in operationally demanding environments.
She is an architect and graduate of ETSAM, the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.
Carmen Paz at Colliers as Project Management Director
In her new role, Paz will lead hotel technical services and specialised hospitality consultancy within the Colliers Architecture team. Her remit covers technical support for transactions, feasibility studies and cost estimates, architectural analysis and design, project management, and technical coordination between hotel operators, owners and investors.
The scope integrates Colliers' hotel advisory capabilities with end-to-end technical delivery — giving the firm a single team capable of handling the full asset lifecycle from acquisition through to operation.
Leadership Statements
"With this appointment, Colliers Architecture fully integrates the capabilities required for the technical development of hotels throughout their entire lifecycle, offering a high-value service proposition to our clients."
— Mariano García Montenegro, Managing Director, Colliers Architecture
"We are firmly committed to integrating specialised technical capabilities into our hotel advisory services. Having a multidisciplinary team enables us to approach asset transactions and operator negotiations while delivering greater value to our clients. Carmen's experience further strengthens our capabilities in differentiated technical consultancy services."
— Laura Hernando, Managing Director of Hotels and future CEO, Colliers Iberia
Carmen Paz on Joining Colliers
"I am approaching this new professional challenge with great enthusiasm. Joining Colliers is an opportunity that fits perfectly with both the current momentum of the hotel sector — experiencing strong growth and increasing professionalisation — and my own career path."
— Carmen Paz, Project Management Director, Colliers
About Colliers in Spain
Colliers Spain celebrated 20 years in the Iberian market in 2026, operating across Madrid, Barcelona and four additional offices with more than 180 professionals. The firm's hotel division covers investment advisory, valuations, debt advisory, operator search and now fully integrated technical project management through Colliers Architecture.
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