Barceló Hotels & Resorts' New Destinations and All-Inclusive Travel (Mexico)
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Barceló Hotels & Resorts' New Destinations and All-Inclusive Travel (Mexico)
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Category: North America & West Indies / Carribean islands - Mexico - Exclusive experiences
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This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2010-02-23
Barceló Hotels & Resorts Closes 2009 with New Destinations and Expanded Offerings for All-inclusive Travel
Despite the 2009 worldwide economic crisis, Barceló Hotels & Resorts enjoyed a successful year, adding six new hotels to its expansive lineup and receiving a wealth of awards and accolades, which serve as further testament to the high caliber of the Barceló brand.
A New Year Brings New Destinations
Barceló experienced rapid growth in the five-year period preceding 2009, allowing the company to nearly double its product offering for travelers, and continued its expansion efforts by debuting six new properties. These openings included the company’s new flagship property in Mexico, Barceló Los Cabos Palace Deluxe in Los Cabos, Mexico; a new family-friendly resort, Barceló Bavaro Family Deluxe, part of the four-in-one Barceló Bavaro Beach Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Barceló Cairo Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt; Barceló Mediterránea Saidïa in Morocco; Barceló Guatemala City in Guatemala; and Barceló Managua in Nicaragua.
These recent additions bring Barceló’s portfolio to an impressive 181 hotels and 45,939 guest rooms in 17 countries, offering something to suit every traveler’s style and budget, and further secure the company’s positioning as the third largest Spanish hotel chain, the twenty-fourth largest hotelier in the world and the leading Spanish hotel chain in the United States and the United Kingdom.
A New Year, A New Look
In addition to expanding its offerings for travelers, the company has plans to ensure that all of its hotels will be of four- or five-star quality in 2010. To work toward this objective, the company has made fully renovated several properties, including Barceló Lina in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, which was the first urban establishment opened by the chain in Latin America in 1988.
The Barceló Bavaro Beach Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, also underwent significant changes this past year. As the first Barceló complex to open outside of Spain in 1985, the resort holds much importance for the hotelier, and its renovation has become the most ambitious renewal project in the company’s history. These efforts have begun to show their rewards, as two of the complex’s oldest hotels have been fully remodeled into two, entirely new establishments: Barceló Bávaro Palace Deluxe and Barceló Bávaro Family Deluxe, which opened in December 2008 and December 2009, respectively.
Barceló’s New Luxury Category
Barceló Hotels & Resorts has also reinforced its commitment to high quality and service with the creation of a new luxury category, Palace Deluxe. This category is associated with the hotelier’s leading high-end establishments, Barceló Premium. Up until now, this category has been assigned to four hotels in Latin America and the Caribbean: Barceló Bávaro Palace Deluxe in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Barceló Los Cabos Palace Deluxe in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico; Barceló Maya Palace Deluxe in Riviera Maya, Mexico; and, soon, Barceló Karmina Palace Deluxe in Manzanillo, Mexico. Barceló Premium Palace Deluxe resorts are all five-star properties that are strategically located only a few steps from the ocean. These resorts each feature mostly junior suites, at least three a la carte restaurants and a modern, world-class spa covering more than 35,000 cubic feet, along with many other elite services and facilities.
New Awards and Accolades
Barceló’s efforts did not go unnoticed in 2009, as the hotelier received numerous awards and accolades, including the following honors for its Latin American hotels:
• Barceló Maya Beach Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico – Green Globe Gold recipient
• Barceló Huatulco Resort, Huatulco Beach, Mexico – Green Globe Gold recipient
• Barceló Punta Cana Resort, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic – Green Globe Gold recipient
• Barceló Costa Cancun Resort, Cancun, Mexico – Green Globe Silver recipient
• Barceló Tucancun Beach Resort, Cancun, Mexico – Green Globe Silver recipient
• Barceló Ixtapa Beach Resort, Ixtapa Beach, Mexico – Green Globe Silver recipient
• Barceló La Jolla De Mismaloya Resort, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – Green Globe Silver recipient
• Barceló Kamina Palace Resort, Manzanillo, Mexico – Green Globe Silver recipient
• Barceló Maya Palace Deluxe, Riviera Maya, Mexico – 2009 MLT Quality Assurance Award
• Barceló La Jolla de Mismaloya, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – “Most Family Resort in Mexico” by TravelAge West
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