Jean-Bernard Falco
Founder, Centaurus Hospitality Management
75009 Paris
Phone +33 1 44 70 80 93
Property Types
Hospitality
Bio
Jean-Bernard has been an entrepreneur for nearly 25 years. He started out in banking, between 1993 and 2005, as a wealth management advisor specializing in hotels. In 1997, he acquired a real estate agency specializing in hotel transactions in Paris. In 2005, he founded Paris Inn Group, the hotel management company of the Centaurus group, alongside his wife, Céline Falco, who comes from a family of four generations of hotel owners. Also part of the Commercial Court of Bobigny and Paris as a judge from 2009 to 2013, Jean-Bernard Falco was appointed, in November 2014, "Federator of the Tourism Export Family" by Laurent Fabius, Secretary of Foreign Affairs and International Development. In June 2015, experiencing a tough competition from uncontrolled tourist accommodations, Jean-Bernard Falco decided to create, alongside his hotelier peers, the Association for Professional Accommodation and Tourism (AHTOP). He also became its President. In January 2021, he was named Knight of the Legion of Honor by official decree of the President, Emmanuel Macron.
