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Meliá Hotels International started the required investment for the first stage in modernising the resort of Magaluf, by updating four hotels on the beach front, known as the Calvià Beach Resort, which opened in June 2012. [4] A popular challenge for tourists is a swim to Black Lizard Island (Isla de sa Porrassa) located in the centre of ...
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).
Hotel Meliá, a hotel in Ponce, Puerto Rico; Meliá Hotels International, a Spanish-owned hotel chain; Hotel Gran Meliá Iguazú, a hotel in Argentina; Meliá Barcelona Sarrià Hotel, a hotel in Barcelona; Melia Grand Hermitage, a hotel in Bulgaria; Gran Meliá Ghoo, a hotel in Iran; Gran Meliá Don Pepe, a hotel in Marbella, Spain
Gabriel Escarrer Julià was born on 14 February 1935 in Porreres, Mallorca. [1] [2] He was the founder and chairman of Meliá Hotels International. [3] In September 2024, he was awarded the Premio Empresario del Año (Entrepreneur of the Year) in the Premios Vanguardia. [4] He had six children, and lived in Mallorca, Spain. [3]
Gabriel Juan Escarrer Jaume (born January 1971) [1] is a Spanish businessman, heir to Meliá Hotels International, where he is the CEO and Chairman. [ 2 ] Early life
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.
The town has a well-maintained beach and is within an hour's drive of the capital Palma de Mallorca, and half an hour's drive from Cuevas del Drach. The island's main airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport , AKA PMI, is on the west side of Palma de Mallorca, and is 70 kilometers west of Cala Millor.
Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. [4]