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Meliá Hotels International, S.A. (formerly Sol Meliá) is a Spanish hotel chain.Sol was founded by Gabriel Escarrer Juliá in 1956 in Palma de Mallorca and Meliá was founded by José Meliá Sinisterra (1911–1999).
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
Since 1895, the hotel had been in the Melia family for four generations, doing business under the corporate name Hotel Melia, Inc., but in July 2013, the hotel was bought by Prime Holdings Group, a Ponce investment group headed by Abel Misla, the dean of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico School of Architecture.
Cayo Levantado, Samana. Tourism in the Dominican Republic is an important sector of the country's economy.More than 10 million tourists visited the Dominican Republic in 2023, [1] [2] making it the most popular tourist destination in the Caribbean and putting it in the top 5 overall in the Americas. [3]
The hotel was extensively renovated in 2003 which included the addition of a spa. In 2006, the hotel was renamed Sheraton Iguazú Resort. The hotel was sold to a UAE-based investment group in August 2017 for $55 million. [2] It left Sheraton on September 29, 2017 and joined Meliá Hotels International as the Hotel Meliá Iguazú.
RIU Hotels & Resorts is a Spanish family-owned hotel chain. The company's business is focused on the holiday hotel sector and over 70% of its establishments offer an all-inclusive service. As of 2014, it was the 30th largest hotel chain in the world. [4] As of 2020, it had 98 locations in 19 countries, 31,270 employees, and 4.9 million ...
La Romana is a municipality and capital of the southeastern province of La Romana, opposite Catalina Island.It is one of the 10 largest cities in the Dominican Republic with a population estimated in 2022 at 153,241 within the city limits (metropolitan population: 270,000), of whom 149,840 are urban and 3,401 are rural.
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]