Meliá hotels to invest US $60M in Mexico in 2025

Meliá Hotels International connected Saturday announced plans to put implicit US $60 cardinal successful Mexico successful 2025. The Spanish edifice radical expects to astir treble its beingness successful Mexico to scope 14 hotels wrong the adjacent 3 years.

During the reopening of Meliá’s Casa Maya edifice successful Cancún connected Saturday, institution CEO Gabriel Escarrer said that astir $50 cardinal of this concern volition enactment the remodeling of its Paradisus edifice successful Cancún, with works planned to commence successful June.

The lion’s stock of the concern funds volition spell toward a large overhaul of the Paradisus edifice successful Cancún, the institution CEO said. (Meliá Hotels)

With the multi-million-dollar renovation, Meliá aims to marque Paradisus “the champion edifice successful the destination by March 2027,” Escarrer said.

Mexico is Meliá’s 2nd biggest concern marketplace aft Spain, with implicit $1.2 cardinal worthy of spot concern successful the country. Quintana Roo authorities connected Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula represents 70% of this value, with a full of 3,000 rooms.

The Casa Maya edifice was 1 of the aboriginal hotels to beryllium built successful Cancun, successful 1980, and the precocious completed $26 cardinal renovation was the effect of a concern betwixt Meliá and the Mexican steadfast Grupo Protexa.

Around 1,200 operation workers helped to modernize the hotel, and it is expected to straight enactment 750 semipermanent jobs, arsenic good arsenic hundreds much indirect jobs.

The designer Álvaro Sans, who managed the renovation, said helium aimed to respect the pre-Columbian elements of the archetypal plan portion adapting the spot to today’s needs.

“We opened the gathering to the sea, creating an amphitheater that connects people with the beach,” said Sans during the hotel’s relaunch connected Saturday.

Escarrer, Meliá’s CEO, besides shared details astir the upcoming remodel of Paradisus hotel. The institution plans to supply first-class gastronomic offerings, remodel its 800 rooms and present apical prime experiences for league groups portion maintaining the hotel’s family-friendly atmosphere.

The CEO besides emphasized the value of sustainable development, stating aims to incorporated materials and technologies to assistance support the environment, specified arsenic those that heighten vigor efficiency.

Quintana Roo Gov. Mara Lezama speaks astatine the reopening of Casa Maya successful Cancún connected Saturday. (Mara Lezama/X)

Meliá presently operates 8 properties successful Mexico, with plans to make caller hotels successful the fashionable destinations of Sayulita, San Miguel de Allende, Guadalajara and Mexico City.

Although Meliá is simply a publically traded company, it remains nether household control, with the household holding implicit 51% of the shares.

The value of public-private partnerships

Escarrer stressed the value of moving intimately with Mexico’s authorities governments to make its properties.

“The [Quintana Roo] politician has ever been proactive successful helping america successful everything, successful speeding up permits and guaranteeing ineligible security,” Escarrer said during the reopening of the Casa Maya hotel.

Quintana Roo’s Governor Mara Lezama highlighted the value of edifice investments to fortify the state’s tourism infrastructure, arsenic good arsenic to enactment occupation creation. She besides emphasized the government’s committedness to promoting policies that fortify the tourism sector, pull caller investments and make opportunities.

“In this caller signifier of authorities tourism, sustainability is simply a priority, and we are arrogant that companies specified arsenic Meliá Hotels International stock this perspective, promoting liable actions that safeguard our earthy resources and heighten the well-being of the section community,” stated Lezama.

With reports from El Economista, El Heraldo de México and Travel Weekly