Iberostar Hotels & Resorts

Iberostar Hotels & Resorts
Private
Industry Hotel and catering trade
Founded 1986
Headquarters Palma, Majorca, Spain
Key people
 Miguel Fluxà Rosselló (100% owner and chairman)
Products Hotels
Number of employees
 + 20,000
Website Iberostar.com
Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso from Ocean, Riviera Maya, Mexico
Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso from inside Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico
An Iberostar in Obzor Beach

Iberostar Hotels & Resorts (Spanish: Iberostar Hoteles y Apartamentos S.L.) is a hotel chain based in specializing in 4 and 5-star hotels. It is owned by Grupo Iberostar, which also owns Iberostate Golf, Villas & Condos and Iberoservice, its incoming tourism division. Grupo Iberostar is 100% owned by Spanish billionaire Miguel Fluxà Rosselló, the third generation heir to a shoe-making business.[1]

The company's trademark is "first line" hotels (meaning directly on the beach), surrounded by gardens.

Iberostar's head office is in Mallorca, Spain, and hotels that operate under their brand name are located in the continents of Europe, North America, Latin America,[2][3] and Africa.

The company temporarily closed the Rose Hall Beach Hotel (but not the adjoining Rose Hall Suites Hotel or Rose Hall Grand Hotel), one of its resorts in Jamaica.[4][5] It reopened in May 2010.

Travel Trade Gazette, a UK-based travel industry publication, named the company "Best Hotel Chain of the Year" in 2009.[6] One of its directors is Manny Fontenla-Novoa, who was also the chief executive of Thomas Cook Group.[7]

In April 2010, Iberostar announced that the actor Antonio Banderas would be the new face of a global campaign to promote the company's hotels and resorts.[8]

Iberostar has been getting negative press as a disturbing story has come out: Resorts in Mexico suspected of drugging tourists. There have been... "numerous reports from others who have told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel they experienced sickness, blackouts and injuries after drinking at Iberostar and other resorts around Cancun and Playa del Carmen in recent months."[9]

References

  1. ↑ Keren Blankfeld (11 June 2017). "Spain's Newest Billionaire Transformed Shoe Fortune Into Hospitality Empire". Forbes.com. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Frommer, Arthur (15 December 2005). "Spanish mega-hotel chains compete in tropics market". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  3. ↑ "Iberostar Invests in Brazil". DTCNews. 3 November 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  4. ↑ "Spain's Iberostar temporarily shuts Jamaica resort". Taiwan News. 29 August 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  5. ↑ Radio Jamaica
  6. ↑ "TTG Travel Awards 2009 winners revealed!". Travel Trade Gazette. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  7. ↑ Cave, Andrew (15 August 2009). "Thomas Cook chief is always in holiday mode". The Daily Telegraph.
  8. ↑ Travel Agent Central | Antonio Banderas, Iberostar Hotels & Resorts Unite for Global Campaign | (Accessed 2010-04-07)/
  9. ↑ http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/resorts-in-mexico-suspected-of-drugging-tourists/458170922


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