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Portfolio Catalonia Hotels & Resorts PORTFOLIO CATALONIA HOTELS & RESORTS Catalonia Hotels & Resorts is a family hotel chain with urban hotels, and resorts in major destinations and privileged locations. It is one of the reference chains in Spain, leader in the city of Barcelona with an offer of over 3,000 rooms. The company currently has more than 70 establishments located in 20 different destinations with an important presence in Spain and the Caribbean, and a growing expansion into top European urban destinations. PERFORMANCE AND PHILOSOPHY Catalonia Hotels & Resorts has reached 9.500 rooms following its discretion and caution development strategy. This policy line has made the company to evolution in a very positive way: 90 % of the hotels are owned by the chain and the remaining 10% are operated through renting or managing agreements. At the beginning of 2013 Catalonia Hotels & Resorts began to consider the managing agreements as a new business model to grow. This new formula allows to centralize the brand integration and to optimze resources to the setting of quality standars. This standard brings some expense reductions and takes profit of an important commercial network from the company Catalonia Hotels & Resorts applies strong quality principles to all different unit centers. Those principles are tight related to an Entrepreneur structure founded on its own style focus on service and a great quality/price relation. This philosophy means comfort, quality and professionality to all services provided by Catalonia Hotels & Resorts. HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN THE CENTER OF THE URBAN DISTRICT The hotel chain maintains an outstanding desire to rehabilitate buildings that have historic value located in the center of the cities where they can establish their hotels. In the historic center of Barcelona we find several examples of this tendency: the Catalonia Berna is a building that was built in 1864 and categorized as a historic monument; the Catalonia Plaça Catalunya is another modern construction from the end of the XIX century; the Catalonia Portal de l’Angel is a former palace with a neoclasic style built in 1872, which is included in the historic heritage catalog of Barcelona. Other examples are the Catalonia Born, Catalonia Port or the Catalonia Catedral. When it comes to Madrid, the two hotels most recently inaugurated in 2011 also follow this tendency: the Catalonia Plaza Mayor or the Catalonia Atocha, hotels that have a splendid façade from the beginning of the XXth century. Also, in Madrid there is the Catalonia Las Cortes, a hotel located in a former palace which includes original elements of the era such as paintings and frescos, or the Catalonia Goya, located in a building from the XIXth century located in the center of the Salamanca neighborhood, one of the best commercial and business areas of the Spanish capital. Other examples are the Catalonia Gran Via, a modernist building from the beginning of the last century or the Catalonia Puerta del Sol, a construction from the XVIII century categorized as a historic complex of the Madrid villa. It is important to point out that in Zaragoza the Catalonia El Pilar is a beautiful hotel located in a building that serves as a reference of the modernist period in Zaragoza from the beginning of the XXIst century located by the Plaza and the Pilar Basílica. AN EXTENSIVE OFFER IN THE CARIBBEAN In 1998 Catalonia inagurated their first resort in the Dominican Republic. Only eight years later, they expanded to 7 more hotels in the Caribbean area. With 4 hotels in Bávaro Beach and four in the Mayan Riviera, Catalonia Hotels & Resorts can accommodate almost 6,000 guests between Mexico and the Dominican Republic. The resorts of 4 and 5 stars offer all inclusive service, which represents a high percentage of the total sales of the hotel chain. In the last few years these establishments comprise the 40% of the total invoice of the company. A HOTEL CHAIN OF REFERENCE IN BARCELONA Catalonia Hotels & Resorts has always been a reference hotel chain in Barcelona. Nowadays it has 29 hotels with more than 6.800 beds, 3.000 of those are located in the historic and comercial centre of the city. QUALITY AND SERVICE • Offers an excellent qualitiy-price ratio. This is the factor that our customers value the most. • Accessible. Catalonia Hotels & Resorts facilitates the reservations online through their official website, a portal where you can find all the information in regards to establishments. • The perseverance when it comes to the maintenance of the establishments, which allows the property to maintain the charm and stay up to date. • The consideration of the team is another fundamental factor for the success of the hotel chain. CURRENT DISTRIBUTION BARCELONA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Renaissance Barcelona Fira 357 2012 Catalonia Plaza 347 1994 Catalonia Ramblas 221 S 2006 Catalonia Plaça Catalunya 148 1987 Catalonia Catedral 71 2009 Catalonia Passeig de Gràcia 74 S 2013 Catalonia Square 58 S 2014 Catalonia Magdalenes 61 2016 Catalonia Gran Via BCN 63 2013 Catalonia Diagonal Centro 84 1991 Catalonia Eixample 1864 124 2003 Catalonia La Pedrera 79 2001 Catalonia Port 41 2008 Catalonia Rigoletto 65 2009 Catalonia Born 90 2002 Catalonia Barcelona 505 115 1989 Catalonia Park Putxet 141 1989 Catalonia Atenas 201 1983 Catalonia Portal de l’Àngel 83 1998 Catalonioa Avinyó 83 2007 Catalonia Mikado 68 1985 Catalonia Sagrada Familia 205 1986 Catalonia Albéniz 47 1992 Catalonia Roma 49 1989 Catalonia Park Güell 141 1985 Catalonia Castellnou 49 1985 Catalonia Maquinista 92 2020 CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MADRID Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Atocha 138 2011 Catalonia Plaza Mayor 82 2011 Catalonia Las Cortes 65 2006 Catalonia Goya 88 2005 Catalonia Puerta del Sol 63 2002 Catalonia Gran Vía 185 1995 Catalonia Madrid Sur 62 Coming soon SEVILLA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Santa Justa 77 1992 Catalonia Giralda 110 1991 Catalonia Híspalis 99 1988 MÁLAGA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Reina Victoria 95 2012 Catalonia Ronda 80 2017 Catalonia Málaga 72 Coming soon GRANADA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Granada 153 2018 CURRENT DISTRIBUTION LOGROÑO Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Las Cañas 73 2014 SAN SEBASTIÁN Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Donosti 122 Coming soon BILBAO Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Bilbao 106 Coming soon VALENCIA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Excelsior 84 1998 ZARAGOZA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia El Pilar 65 2003 CURRENT DISTRIBUTION SALAMANCA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Plaza Mayor Salamanca 67 2002 MURCIA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Conde Floridablanca 85 2000 SABADELL Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Gran Verdi 172 1997 Catalonia Sabadell 110 1992 SANT ANDREU DE LA BARCA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Bristol 57 1995 CURRENT DISTRIBUTION TENERIFE Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Las Vegas 265 1991 Catalonia Punta del Rey 417 1989 Catalonia Oro Negro 269 1991 MALLORCA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Majórica 169 1998 Catalonia del Mar 189 1996 Hotel Colombo 139 2002 Hotel Alea 110 2000 MENORCA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Mirador des Port 73 2000 IBIZA Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Ses Estaques 159 2002 Catalonia Royal Ses Savines 39 2017 CURRENT DISTRIBUTION BRUSSELS Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Brussels 80 2001 BERLIN Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Berlin Mitte 131 2014 AMSTERDAM Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Vondel Amsterdam 83 2019 MILAN Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Milano Centrale 78 Coming soon OPORTO Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Porto 86 2019 CURRENT DISTRIBUTION BAVARO - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Royal Bávaro 278 2005 Catalonia Bávaro Beach 688 1998 Golf & Casino Resort BAYAHIBE - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Gran Dominicus 385 2006 Catalonia Royal La Romana 141 2017 SANTO DOMINGO - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Santo Domingo 228 2016 RIVIERA MAYA - MEXICO Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Royal Tulum 288 2006 Beach & Spa Resort Catalonia Riviera Maya 423 2004 Resort & Spa Catalonia Yucatán Beach 205 2004 Resort & Spa Catalonia Playa Maroma 410 2006 COSTA MUJERES - MEXICO Hotel Name Rooms Category Opening Catalonia Costa Mujeres 434 Coming soon CURRENT DISTRIBUTION TOTAL HOTELS Destinations Hotels Barcelona 27 Madrid 6 Rest of Spain 26 Europe 6 Dominican Republic 5 Mexico 5 TOTAL 75.
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