Meliá Hotels International
Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts S. A. (own spelling MELIÃ ) is a Spanish hotel chain, which was founded in 1956 by Gabriel Escarrer Juliá in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The company is the world's largest operator of resorts and the thirteenth largest hotel chain in the world (as of 2008 ). In Spain 's Sol Meliá leader in hotels and resorts categories. At the moment, Sol Meliá operates globally more than three hundred hotels in thirty different countries and employs more than 35,000 employees.
The company's history
The company's roots go back to 1956 when the then 21 -year-old Gabriel Escarrer Juliá rented the Altair Hotel in Palma de Mallorca. In the following years, Escarrer made the increasing popularity of the island as a tourist destination advantage and integrated from time to time, more and more hotels in his company Hoteles Mallorquines. In the 1960s and 1970s, the hotel chain also expanded geographically by hotels were acquired both in the Canary Islands as well as on the rest of the Balearic Islands. After the end of the reign of General Franco 's moving to tourism faster than ever before in Spain and Hoteles Mallorquines could therefore expand with high dynamics in the Spanish domestic market. In this way, the beginning of the 1980s was achieved a nationwide presence in Spain.
In 1984, the hotel chain was renamed Hoteles Sol. Only a short time later, the company has established itself as the largest hotel chain in Spain, after the acquisition of Hotasa Group was successfully managed. This was represented in a total of 32 locations. Another merger took place three years later, instead of the hotel chain Meliá, from the then current chain Sol Meliá emerged. The merger increased the global presence of the hotel chain enormous, as she was now also represented in the Caribbean, known as the Americas and other parts of Europe.
In the recent time the company Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts SA undertook increasingly attempts to form partnerships with other companies in the tourism industry. Although the shares of Sol Meliá is traded on the Madrid Stock Exchange since 1996, the Escarrer family still holds a share of about 61 percent in 2007.
The Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts S. A. maintains partnerships with many airlines, including with Lufthansa, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Iberia, Air Berlin and Spanair and, since October 2011 with the KLM / Air France.
The brands of Sol Meliá
The product portfolio of Sol Meliá consists of various brands, all of which differ in luxuriousness and profile. This portfolio includes the brands: Gran Meliá, Meliá, ME by Meliá, Innside, TRYP Hotels, Sol Hotels, Paradisus Resorts and Sol Meliá Vacation Club.
In July 2010, Sol Meliá and Wyndham Worldwide announces the sale of the Hotel Tryp brand hotels in the U.S. group known. The hotels will continue to be operated by Sol Meliá as Tryp by Wyndham. In addition, a strategic alliance between the two hotel groups is provided.
At the moment, the company operates more than 300 hotels, of which there are about 180 in Spain. Of the other 29 countries are following the leader in terms of number of hotels: Cuba, Croatia, Germany, Portugal and Brazil.