Spanish hotel chain Sol Meliá welcomed 227,796 guests in the first three months of the ongoing year, up a walloping 31.6 percent from the first quarter of 2004.
During a presentation the Majorca-based company made at Cuba´s International Tourism Fair, top execs informed its hotels on the island nation totaled $100 million in the course of 2004 at an average price tag of $77.38 per room.
Management and Operation of the Radisson Cable Beach Resort, the Nassau Beach Hotel and the Wyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace Casino have been assumed by Baha Mar Development Co., which plans a 2,700-room resort complex in Nassau´s cable Beach area.
The three resorts will remain open and will operate under their existing flags while a $15 million capital improvement program is underway through December, Travel Weekly reported.
Almond Resorts, the Barbados-based all inclusive hotel resort, has taken over the management of St. James Club, formerly the Wyndham Morgan Bay, and has promised to spend over US$40 million to rebrand and improve the property.
The take-over will be effective from May 31 and will be called Almond Morgan Bay, Ralph Taylor, the chairman and managing director of Almond Resorts pointed out.
Spanish hotel chain Sol Meliá has just announced the grand opening of its 22nd establishment in Cuba, scheduled for early 2006. The Meliá-Las Dunas will strengthen the Majorca-based company’s stance as the number-one foreign hotelier on the island nation.
Amaury Escalona, of Sol Meliá’s Cuba Division, told Prensa Latina News Agency that the Meliá-Las Dunas, located on Cayo Santa Maria, an islet off the northern shore of Villa Clara, in central Cuba, will be ready to go in early 2006.
Cuban travel company Habaguanex S.A. will open a brand-new fancy hotel in Old Havana, the Saratoga, located in a bustling corner of the city with a spectacular view of the surroundings.
The colonial architecture of the new facility features great French carpentry, amazing ceramic tiles and the finest Cuban marble money can buy.
Cuban travel and tour company Gaviota S.A. has just opened Montehabana, an apart-hotel designed to target long-staying guests and conventional tourists as well.
Montehabana has 88 well-equipped apartments and one of the exclusive reserved for handicapped people. In addition, it has 76 standard rooms and a variety of services and conveniences ranging from ice-making machines in every floor, laundry service and round-the-clock lobby snack and bar to cyber café, private parking and shuttle buses with departures to Old Havana.