Sol Meliá And The Vallehermoso Group Inaugurate The Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel

2003-01-27

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Sol Melia The Vallehermoso Group has invested more than 18.5 million euros in the construction of the hotel

Thursday, 23rd. January, 2003. Tonight, the Spanish hotel company Sol Meliá and the Vallehermoso Group will be officially inaugurating the new 4-star Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel, located alongside the El Prat International Airport, just 10 kilometers from the center of Barcelona. The event will be attended by the Assistant Director General of Tourism of the Catalonia Government, Javier Sobrino; the Mayor of El Prat de Llobregat, Lluís Tejedor Ballesteros; the Executive Vice President of Sol Meliá’s European Division, Andrés Encinas; the Chief Executive Officer of Testa, Fernando Rodríguez-Avial and the Hotel General Manager, Enrique Portales, amongst others.

The Vallehermoso Group, through its subsidiary Patrimonio Testa, has invested more than 18.5 million euros in the construction of the Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel, and the hotel has joined the Sol Meliá chain through a lease agreement. Sol Meliá and Vallehermoso also have similar arrangement for the Tryp Alameda (Malaga), Tryp Jerez (Cadiz) and, from May, 2003, the Tryp Reino de Valencia.

The Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel, designed by the Catalan architect Carlos Ferrater, provides 205 rooms, a breakfast buffet, an “à la carte” restaurant, lobby bar, fitness center, private car park for 145 vehicles and free airport transfers. This modern hotel also provides almost 400 square meters of meeting space in its 7 event rooms, all equipped with the latest modern technology and energy-saving features.

Barcelona, one of the world’s foremost travel destinations:

The opening of the Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel is another step towards achieving Sol Meliá’s growth objectives in Spain, and especially in and around Barcelona, a city which has seen a spectacular increase in visits by both business and leisure travelers since it hosted the Olympic Games back in 1992. According to the local tourism authorities, in 2002 more than 3.5 million tourists stayed overnight in the city, an increase of 6% over the previous year. The number of hotel stays increased by 10.1% over the same period to more than 8.7 million.

The deal also promotes another of the company’s marketing strategies aimed at raising awareness of the Tryp brand both in Spain and abroad through the addition of new hotels to the brand. The Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel becomes hotel number 105 for the Tryp brand, of which 63 are located in Spain.

The Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel ****:

Rooms: 205 rooms including 185 standard rooms, 12 junior suites, 4 deluxe rooms and 4 rooms especially adapted for the disabled.
Location: In El Prat, alongside Barcelona airport and 10 km. from the city center.
Services and facilities: Breakfast buffet, “à la carte” restaurant, lobby bar, fitness center, car park, free airport transfers and 7 meeting rooms.
Design: Carlos Ferrater, National Prize for Spanish Architecture 2001 for his work on the Catalonia Congress Center and designer of such important works as the Barcelona Botanical Gardens, the Olympic Village at the Valle Hebrón or the Hotel Juan Carlos I.

Sol Meliá is the leading hotel company in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean, the third largest in Europe and tenth in the world ranking. The company currently provides more than 350 hotels in 30 countries through its Meliá Hotels, TRYP Hotels, Sol Hotels and Paradisus Resorts brands, of which 12 are located in Catalonia and 5 in Barcelona.
Vallehermoso is the leading real estate company in Spain measured by revenues and profits and forms part of the select Ibex 35 share index. The company focuses on three primary business areas: housing, patrimony (offices, hotels, shopping malls, residential housing, ...) and services. The Tryp Barcelona Airport Hotel is the company’s seventh hotel construction and the company has agreements with several hotel chains to run the properties in Malaga, Jérez de la Frontera, Madrid, Barcelona and, in the near future, two new hotels in Valencia and Alcobendas (Madrid).

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