Meliá Hotels steps up its luxury portfolio • Hotel Designs

The luxurious model rooted in Mediterranean heritage and born in Palma de Mallorca in 1956, has introduced an formidable pipeline together with a dedication to grow its luxurious portfolio by 40 per cent around the future a few yrs. This year’s new sustainable chief and very first carbon-neutral prototype, Villa Le Blanc Gran Meliá in Menorca, strengthened the brand’s place, which is elevated even more with vital impending luxurious lodge openings: Palazzo Cordusio, a Gran Meliá Resort in Milan, Ngorongoro Lodge, a Meliá Assortment Lodge in Tanzania, ME Malta, ME Lisbon, ME Guadalajara in Mexico, Paradisus Gran Canaria, Paradisus Salinas in Lanzarote, and Gran Meliá Nha Trang in Vietnam.

“In today’s current market, luxury and exclusivity can no extended be outlined from one particular perspective, consequently our luxurious brands (Gran Meliá, The Meliá Selection, ME by Meliá, and Paradisus by Meliá) request to address the planet of luxury in various ways. Our mission is to give aware journey for an enriching way of life,” reported Gabriel Escarrer, CEO of Meliá Lodges Global. “We have an spectacular pipeline and our prime luxury lodges will spearhead our ongoing upwards trajectory, not just in places of Meliá’s roots of the Mediterranean, but additional afield to Africa and Asia also.”

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Palazzo Cordusio, a Gran Meliá Hotel in Milan will be housed in Palazzo Venezia, one particular of the most iconic Renaissance structures in the town. Opening in Q3 2023, the emblematic Palazzo Cordusio sets a key milestone in currently being Gran Meliá’s initially Milanese property and reaffirms Meliá’s strengthening footprint in Italy. The lodge will maintain the building’s cultural prestige with the hotel’s historic façade even though renovating the 84 guestrooms, restaurants and rooftop bar. In-home architect Álvaro Sans will develop tasteful spaces and sophisticated interiors to entice gourmand-enthusiasts and cultured travellers.

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The most the latest model addition to the hotel group, The Meliá Selection, is also opening a new assets future 12 months. Additional afield to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, Meliá will start its fourth luxurious hotel in the African place and its very first inside of the Crater alone – Ngorongoro Lodge, a Meliá Assortment Lodge. Opening in June 2023, this five-star lodge will full the brand’s safari circuit, boast the most significant – still nevertheless modest – lodge area presenting in the Crater, and heighten Meliá’s dedication to sustainability and respectful exploration of the vacation spot with Ngorongoro Conservation Location staying a shielded area and a UNESCO Globe Heritage Internet site a unusual internet site where wildlife coexists with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists.

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The newly renovated 56-essential hotel will show nearby artwork and element neutral tones and conventional designs, coupled with remarkable views throughout the encompassing untouched landscape and the Crater, and subtle nods to Meliá’s Spanish heritage via guest activities and culinary concepts. With regarded environmental initiatives this kind of as manufacturing the hotel’s own electric power, photo voltaic strength and consuming h2o, using local Maasai tribe members and collaborating with the Moshi-based NGO Born to Master, Ngorongoro Lodge will introduce a cultural and eco-acutely aware resort for discerning travellers.

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Across the Mediterranean, ME Malta will launch on the island’s eastern coast in St Julians in the next 50 percent of 2023, presenting a new social and cultural epicentre for cosmopolitan travellers to explore the hottest art, society, audio and fashion in the vivid city. Made by entire world-popular architect Zaha Hadid, it will develop into a new and profound location to elevate Malta’s urban landscape – and the second ME by Meliá lodge created entirely by the late Dame Hadid, next ME Dubai. The hotel’s 140 rooms and suites, spa and meeting spaces will boast daring yet classy interiors, accompanied by innovative culinary offerings and ME by Meliá’s signature Radio Rooftop Bar the place specialist mixologists, specialist DJs and fascinating situations will appeal to nearby and international friends. With culture at the core of ME by Meliá many thanks to its programme ‘The Tradition Collective’, and Malta remaining the formal host of EuroPride 2023, this synergy will bring a momentous push for the spot.

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Yet another ME by Meliá lodge will start as the brand’s initially in the place, with ME Lisbon opening in Q2 2024. Perched up in the vicinity of Parque Eduardo VII, the hotel comes as the city’s first luxury way of living resort becoming a member of the high-conclude hospitality scene and marks a more milestone for Meliá’s European growth.

Further afield, ME Guadalajara will open in Q4 2023 as the next ME by Meliá resort in Mexico as very well as the brand’s to start with city lodge in Mexico. The brand name will convey its exclusive type, character and luxurious life style technique to 1 of the most cosmopolitan and cultural cities in the country. ME Guadalajara will comprise 152 rooms and suites, as effectively as a sky pool and signature rooftop spot. In line with other world ME lodges, it will also supply a huge assortment of fantastic dining ordeals.

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Paradisus by Meliá, Meliá Motels International’s fourth luxury manufacturer, and presently solely located in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, marks sizeable news in 2023 with its inaugural European openings: Paradisus Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, in January and Paradisus Salinas, Lanzarote, in March. These resorts will be a blend of the brand’s signature household-helpful luxury method with Paradisus’ new thought, ‘Destination Inclusive’. A idea that elevates the ‘all-inclusive’ idea to a new stage, making certain that the destination is now an vital part of the getaway encounter. Each guest will be in a position to have a thoroughly exclusive, immersive and genuine taste of the locality and embrace normal encounters through each and every resort’s sustainable design and style and philosophy. Paradisus Salinas will be housed in a developing designed by Spanish architect Fernando Higueras, which is section of Lanzarote’s inventive and cultural heritage. The luxurious vacation resort will permit guests to learn the island’s tradition, investigate its organic elegance and delve into a holistic expertise.

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Heightening the hotel brand’s presence in Asia has been of equal calibre this calendar year, and Meliá is by now set to turn out to be one of the largest intercontinental lodge brands in Vietnam. The forthcoming opening of Gran Meliá Nha Trang in Vega Metropolis, Vietnam, in Q2 2023, will reaffirm Meliá’s situation in the region and luxurious sector. Built to turn out to be a symbol of fashionable architecture, the ultra-luxurious hotel’s 99 distinctive beachfront private villas give elevated space and privateness, with visitor ordeals pivoting close to gastronomy and wellbeing. Meliá’s signature Mediterranean roots are noticed by way of the culinary providing mixing Spanish cuisine with community ingredients, accompanied by swimming pools, a Seashore Club, a spa and conditioning centre for undisturbed escapism.

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Across the current and approaching portfolio, sustainability is a crucial ingredient with corporate responsibility and sustainability embedded across Meliá’s social, economic and environmental pillars. Obtaining led the S&P’s World-wide sustainability rating in 2019 and 2020, Meliá was named the most sustainable lodge business in Spain and Europe for the 3rd consecutive calendar year in 2021, and Villa Le Blanc Gran Meliá set new specifications for the group’s ongoing eco-dedication. Considering that its launch this summer time, the lodge has been given numerous awards these types of as the Rethink Award for the greatest hotel sustainability and rehabilitation challenge from the Habitat Futura Group, and has been acknowledged as the Most effective Sustainability initiative in the Balearic Islands, location a benchmark for hotel-effectiveness and decarbonisation in the Biosphere Reserve location.

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