The ExpoMeloneras Congress Centre can be found in the southern reaches of the island, in Meloneras to be precise, surrounded by spectacular ravines and protected natural habitats. A mere seven hundred metres from the golden beaches of Maspalomas, the facility features a truly impressive and versatile design. The multi-purpose convention centre boasts a floor area of 14,000 square metres, of which 9,264 are given over to congresses, conventions, seminars, exhibitions, concerts, sporting events, fashion parades, meetings, and a whole host of other events. SPECIFICATIONS The ExpoMeloneras convention centre offers the following arrangements and capacities: LOCATION, DIMENSIONS AND CAPACITY

CONFERENCE LENGTH WIDTH HEIGHT FLOOR AREA THEATRE CLASSROOM U- HALLS (M) (M) (M) (M2) SHAPED HALL 1-9 20 20 10 400 400 126 60 HALL 1.1 , 2.1, 3.1, 1.3 , 2.3 , 3.3 20 7 10 140 140 48 42 HALL 1.2 , 2.2 , 3.2 14 7 10 98 80 30 36 HALL 10-14 10 6 2.82 60 48 24 24 HALL 15, 17 8 6 4.4 48 48 18 18 HALL 16 (PRESS) 5 6 4.4 30 30 12 12 LAS TIRAJANAS AUDITORIUM 31 20 variable 620 804 - - MELONERAS HALL 21 6 2.82 126 - - - CRYSTALARIUM A & B 1,000 - - - CRYSTALARIUM C - - - 546.36 - - -

Accommodation THE TOURIST-ORIENTED MELONERAS AREA OFFERS A WIDE RANGE OF PREMIUM HOTEL ESTABLISHMENTS

E EXPOMELONERAS

DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT TO MELONERAS 20 minutes LOPESAN Villa del Conde

Distances: 2 minutes from ExpoMeloneras, 40 km to the airport, 300 m to Meloneras beach Rooms: 521 doubles and 40 suites, equipped with SAT-TV, air conditioning, rooms for the E disabled, mini-bar, safe and WiFi. Restaurants: La Plaza, salad grill restaurant Alpendre, snack cafeteria El Patio, club WALKING DISTANCE TO restaurant Ovo and Italian restaurant El Patio. Bars: Lobby Bar Akoran, Zythum bar, El Patio EXPOMELONERAS snack bar, Alpendre pool bar, Bar Azotea, Salón Tizziri. 2 minutes Services: 24-hour front desk, thalassotherapy, green fee bookings for Lopesan Meloneras Golf and Maspalomas Golf, with special discounts and free shuttle service. Leisure: swimming pools, jacuzzis, sports.

E EXPOMELONERAS

DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT TO MELONERAS 20 minutes LOPESAN Costa Meloneras 2 Distances: 5 minutes from ExpoMeloneras, 40 km to the airport, 100 m to Maspalomas beach Rooms: 961 doubles, 60 superior E doubles, 56 junior suites, 4 superior suites and 2 royal suites, all fitted with SAT-TV, air conditioning, mini-bar and safe. WALKING DISTANCE TO Restaurants: Alameda, Atlántico, Vista Mar, Vía Veneto, Ambassador, Café Bar Tertulia. EXPOMELONERAS Bars: Bar Central, La Brasserie, Bolero. 5 minutes Services: 24-hour front desk, spa, green fee bookings for Lopesan Meloneras Golf and Maspalomas Golf, with special discounts and free shuttle service. Leisure: swimming pools, jacuzzis, sports.

E EXPOMELONERAS

DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT TO MELONERAS 20 minutes LOPESAN Baobab

Distances: 2 minutes from ExpoMeloneras, 40 km from airport, 300 m from Maspalomas beach. Rooms: 617, of which 60 are suites, all equipped with SAT-TV, air conditioning, mini- E bar and safe. Restaurants: Baobab, Marula, Pili Pili, Akara. Bars: Samuel Baker Bar, R. Burton Bar, WALKING DISTANCE TO Mungo Park Bar, Henry Stanley Bar, Piano EXPOMELONERAS Bar Dodori. Services: 24-hour front desk, gym, massage 2 minutes service, hairdresser’s, green fee bookings for Lopesan Meloneras Golf and Maspalomas Golf, with special discounts and free shuttle service. Leisure: swimming pools, sports

E EXPOMELONERAS

DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT TO MELONERAS 20 minutes IFA Faro

Distances: 7 minutes from ExpoMeloneras,

40 km from airport, 0 m from Maspalomas

beach.

E Rooms: 174 doubles, 11 suites, 3 adapted

for people with reduced mobility, all

WALKING DISTANCE TO equipped with SAT-TV, air conditioning, mini- EXPOMELONERAS bar and safe. 7 minutes Restaurants: Tamarona, Guatiboa. Bars: Piano Bar Gánigo, Café Panorama.

Services: 24-hour front desk, WiFi.

Leisure: swimming pool, jacuzzi, sports.

MASPALOMAS 5

DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT TO MELONERAS SAN ROQUE 20 minutes MASPALOMAS HOSPITAL E EXPOMELONERAS The San Roque Maspalomas Hospital is just a stone’s throw from ExpoMeloneras and is interconnected with state-of-the-art technology to broadcast procedures from E the operating theatre to the convention centre. WALKING DISTANCE TO EXPOMELONERAS The 25,000 m2 hospital has the very latest 13 minutes in technology and excellent medical services. Its specialist areas include internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, gynaecology and obstetrics, clinical laboratory analysis and 24-hour ER room. ExpoMeloneras THE PERFECT PLACE TO TEAM BUILDING Gran Canaria RUNNING MOUNTAIN BIKE

Its enviable seafront location makes the exclusive Lopesan Villa del Conde hotel one of the best choices for thalassotherapy on the island. The health centre offers 1,200 m2 of indoor and outdoor space, featuring seawater swimming pools, heated hammocks, steam baths, adventure showers and ice fountain. The sumptuous Ocean View Suites, surrounded by water and offering their own sub-aquatic massage pool and relaxing terrace, have their own professional therapists and stewardesses to provide guests with a truly personalised and exclusive service. Services: Thalasso Experience (approx. 1,200 m2) vitality pool, flotation pool, Ocean Vital Suite, sub-aquatic massages, heated hammocks, tea room. The hotel’s fantastic 3,500 m2 hydrothermal circuit embraces the heat of the tropics, the Arabic world and the North Pole. Considered one of Europe’s finest and most well- equipped spa centres, its crowning glory is the Himalayan Salt Cave, the first to be seen in Spain. The centre offers no less than 80 different treatments, oriental techniques, along with the Honeymoon Spa, 14 rooms and four pools, all designed with relaxation, vitality and harmony in mind. A beauty parlour, a fitness centre and an outdoor area with four pools offer an unforgettable journey of serenity and silence. Services: SPA Experience (approx. 1,200 m2), Himalayan Salt Cave, flotation pool, igloo, beauty parlour, fitness centre and specialised monitors. Lopesan Meloneras Golf is an absolute oasis of palm treees and lakes, with the nature of the Canary Islands as its true protagonist. The golf course is situated on the Costa Meloneras, the new touristic resort in the South of Gran Canaria.

Lopesan Meloneras Golf affords panoramic views of the island´s mountains, a luxury that is coupled with an envious climate that enables golfers to practise this legendary sport all year long.

Lopesan Meloneras Golf, 18-hole par 71 golf course, is located right next to the sea. Golf players will enjoy a spectacular view from the green, where the green of the course blends with the blue of the ocean. YEARS OF EXPERIENCE 13 FOR THE LOPESAN HOTEL GROUP

VII Regional Congress of the Canarian Society for Internal Medicine, Meet of the regional department for the Canary Islands of the Spanish Dermatology Academy. Ulma Almirall, Prodesfarma, Presentation of new Volkswagen, Siemens convention, Médicos Msd Thomas Cook, Laboratorio Allergan, Stavanger University, Laboratorios Lilly, Gynallround Mundial Medical Reisen, Toshiba Maritz, Telos Mobidata, MSD Reumatólogos, Symantec Group, Gallaher, Statoil, Pfizer, Meeting of the Canarian Neurology Society, Amena, AMC, XXXV National Congress of the Spanish Society for Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery, Laboratorios Boehringer Separ, GSK, Lancaster, II International Congress on Hotel Fire Prevention, XXX Congress of the Canarian Ophthalmology Society, The Ultra-Peripheral Regions of the EU, Astra Zeneca, Laboratorios Alconcusí, Probisa, Nutricare. Texaco, IV Ibero-American Congress for Young Entrepreneurs, Caja de Madrid, Laboratorios Almirall Prodesfarma, Länsförsäkringar, Laboratorios Wyeth Farma, Canaria Media Open, XXIII Conference of the Canarian Society of Digestive Pathology, Umbro, Group SONY convention, STATOIL Group, GYNALLROUND Group Pharmacia Pan, Altamira Group, CARINA congress, International meeting of Warnerbros, Alcon Cusí laboratory, Abbott laboratory, GSK laboratory, BP Group, Toyota presentation, Pensa laboratory, Nutricare, Regulatory Council Spie’s First International Symposium on Microtechnologies, Lunch of the National Urogoly Congress, LVMH dinner, Comisión Obrera, Laboratorios Ordesa, Roche, Renault vehicle presentation, BP , Pfizer laboratory, Banco Santander Central Hispano, Credit Agricoles Indosuez. Board meeting of CIA Cervecera de Canarias, SPAR Group, WYETH laboratory, Spanish Savings Bank Convention on Risks, Regional Odontology Congress, Philips Iberica, National Meeting on Litiasis and Endoscopy, CIA Canariense de Tabaco, Back to Back ALGIDA, Regional Conference of the AEDAF on the Canary Islands, Interspar Executive Committee, Mutua General de Seguros, Cartier presentation, Intercom / Nikkon, Möller Group, Renault training, Renault dealership, IV Critical Patient Refresher Meeting, Philips, OUR Ibero-Mexican Meeting on Tobacco Dependance, Dinner of the National Nursing Congress, Internorm Group, Spie’s Fluctuations and Noise Symposium, National Congress on Paediatric TRACK Cardiology, General Council of the Judiciary, National congress of the Almirall laboratory, Ordesa laboratory – nursing meeting, Ordesa laboratory, Cope, Gilead laboratory: “Meet the RECORD Experts”, Spanair Golf Tournament, Remote & Sensing Symposium, “Calvin Klein” perfume presentation ,Official Association of Technical Telecommunications Engineers, RACC Group, INT football tournament, Elisabeth Arden presentation, Travel Counsellors Abta, Shering Schweiz, Pfizer laboratory, Puma convention, Conference on tourism arbitration, Pre-congress Nuclear YEARS OF EXPERIENCE 13 FOR THE LOPESAN HOTEL GROUP OUR TRACK RECORD

Medicine Meeting, L’Oreal Paris, Bosch convention, Asma event, Diageo Canarias, XVIII Campus of Excellence, Commercial Law, Young Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, XX Meeting Conference of the Canarian Society for Cardiology, LVMH, American Express, Philip of University Marketing Lecturers, ABTA GROUP. The Travel Convention, VIII Congress of the Morris, Romo Group, Kia Canarias, XXVI Congress of the Spanish Society for Nuclear Canarian Society for Endocrinology and Nutrition, XVIII Symposium on Canarian American Medicine, Conference on Immigration, Nationality and Foreign Affairs, Excellency Campus, History, XII Regional Congress on Internal Medicine, National Meeting on Economic Delinquency V Regional Conference for Midwives, National Congress of Notaries, Ordesa laboratory,m International Congress on Congenital Cardiopathy, Gran Canaria Moda Cálida, National IV Digital Español Symposium, Eventissimo, IV International Conference on Canary Island Congress on Paraplegia, International Interasma congress, National Congress of AEDAVE travel Consumer Affairs, Congress on arbitration as an out-of-court form of dispute resolution agencies, National TravelPlan Convention, National Congress on Paediatrics, International in the economic real, Laboratorios Imefarm, XXV Conference of the Canarian “Isaac L’Oreal Convention, 32 National Semergen Congress, Volkswagen presentation, 2011 Newton” Society for Teachers of Mathematics, Board of Directors of Scania Hispania, Board Neumosur-Nursing Congress, 48 Hours with Telefónica FILMPOOL, AEDAF 2011, BBVA of Directors of Técnica Cajas de Ahorro, Regional meeting of Philip Morris, Radio Cadena DT.EN GC. conference, GSK - World Events, Proexca, National Cardiology Congress, Endesa, CopeXXI Cepsa Social Games, Amena, XXXV Joint Meeting of the Canarian Society for Preventive Medicine, Amex Barceló, SPMSD, Business Committee of la Caixa, Congress on Paediatrics, Sisley España presentation of beauty products, XV Conference of Ministries Internal Medicine - SEMI, Congress on Primary Care Medicine, Xerox, Novartis laboratory for Justice of Latin American Countries, Casa de Colón conference,II Forum Maspalomas dinner/symposium, General Assembly of ASINCA, L’Oreal Portugal, Golf tournament for air Canarian Coast on the path to Excellence, Telepizza, International Congress on Private traffic controllers,Nordic Royalty Retrait (Herbalife), Endesa conference, Swiss Triathlon Group, Investigation, Canarian Congress on Geriatrics, IV Biennial on Healthcare Planning and Guerlain, Regional Congress on Ophthalmology, Musical festival of the Canary Islands, PP Health Policies Auditor Day, Spanish Institute of Chartered Accountants, LII Meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary event, Leyca Microsystems, Groupama Seguros, Remax, Rosinski Bon Spanish Group for Research into Contact Dermatitis and Cutaneous Allergies (Geidcac), Prix, Cetelem bank, Intelitur, Meeting of Lilly laboratory, III Olimpia Canarias Symposium, International Carboocean II Congress, V Digital Español Symposium, Fifa Royal Spanish SECO Congress on Obesity, Moda Cálida 2011, Cartier, L’Oreal de Lujo, Socarmef congress, Football Federation, BP Oil, Carlson Wagonlit, Regional Congress on Oncology (Ascom), Philharmonic Orchestra, Sordos NGO for the hearing impaired, Gala Drag, Best of Mice, Sisley, Factor X, Official Association of Technical Industrial Engineers, VI Meeting of the Canarian Lancôme, Conference on Hepatitis A organised by the General Department for Public Health Association of Haematology and Hemotherapy, Spie Europe’s Microtechnologies for the of the Canary Islands Next Millennium, Dior, III Conference for Diabetes Educators, Viajes Marsans convention, Convention of the Presidents of Spanish State Ports, Audiencia de Cuentas de Canarias, XVII Annual Meeting of the Canarian Society for Otolaryngology and Pathology, Cervicofacial, World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse, Working Conference of the First Section of the Supreme Court, Conference on Research at Spanish Universities (ULPGC), Las Palmas University Foundation, Laboratorios Bristol, Ibr Expert Meeting Internat. Business & Relationship China-Africa, Intelligent User Interfaces, Seminar on Rheumatoid Arthritis, FIFA Referees, General Electric convention, VI Internat. Conference of the Family Business Forum (ESOC), XXV Meeting of the Canarian Society for Nephrology, Congress on Healthcare Law, Provincial Traffic Office, BBVA conference, Regional Congress on Psychiatry MICE DEPARTMENT (Meeting, Incentive, Conference & Exhibition)

Plaza de las Convenciones s/n · E-35100 Meloneras San Bartolomé de Tirajana · Gran Canaria T: +34 928 128 000 [email protected] · www.expomeloneras.com

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