Aperturas de hoteles

🏨 Catalonia Hotels & Resorts opens its eighth hotel in Madrid, the Catalonia Plaza España Hotel & Spa, located on Gran Vía. This 4-star hotel features 164 rooms, a 540 m² wellness area, and rooftop amenities. It promotes sustainability with LED lighting, VRV climate control, and photovoltaic panels. Sponsored by the NextGenerationEU plan, the chain has acquired four hotels in the past year and is expanding into Africa with a resort in Zanzibar.

🏨 Barceló Hotel Group reopened Barceló Bilbao Nervión after nearly a year-long renovation by Mil Studios. The 4-star, 350-room hotel in Bilbao revamped its common areas and dining spaces, aiming to be a gastronomic hub. Sustainability was prioritized using natural materials and optimizing light, thermal, and acoustic comfort. The redesign included a new Basque-inspired restaurant, Albergui, focusing on local and international cuisine. The renovation emphasizes hospitality with organic textures and dynamic spaces.

📍 Smy Hotels will manage the 5-star Hotel Pisa Tower Plaza in Italy, following a €16 million purchase agreement. Renovations costing €1.5 million will commence in December 2025. The hotel offers 128 rooms, a rooftop gym, a convention hall for 200, and five meeting rooms. Management begins November 1, 2025. Pisa, with nearly 6 million airport passengers, is a key entry to Tuscany. Smy Hotels aims for further expansion, eyeing Florence next.

📈 República Dominicana's tourism set a record in early 2025 with 4.37 million international visitors, a 4% rise from 2024 and 50% more than 2019. Tourism, accounting for 19% of GDP, leads in foreign exchange earnings. Spanish investments dominate, with 45% in hotels. The country has 85,000 hotel rooms, planning for 16,000 more, creating 976,000 jobs. New hotel projects by Meliá and Eurostars are underway, aiming for 12 million tourists in 2025.

🏖 Senator Hotels & Resorts will open the adults-only Mirador del Cabo Affiliated by Senator hotel in Almería on June 21. Located beachside, it offers deluxe sea-view rooms and three outdoor pools. Guests can enjoy activities like ping-pong and mini-golf. Dining includes a buffet restaurant with live cooking, a lobby bar, and a pool bar. Positioned between Aguadulce and Almería, it is ideal for snorkeling and diving. The nearby Aguadulce Marina offers numerous leisure options.

🏨 deLuna Hotels, in May 2025, opened Luna Suites Palacio Dorita in Granada's historic center. This expansion adds to their existing properties, including Gran Hotel Luna de Granada, Boutique Hotel Luna Granada, and Luna Suites Granada. Future openings are planned in Cádiz, Sevilla, and Motril. Palacio Dorita offers studios and apartments with modern amenities, blending historical charm with contemporary comfort, emphasizing sustainable and quality accommodations. Close to Granada's Cathedral, Alhambra, and Albaicín, it enhances cultural tourism.

💰 All Iron RE I Socimi reported a 21% revenue growth for Q1 2025, reaching €1.6 million, with an EBITDA of €898,000. Excluding Easter impacts, comparable revenue grew 14% year-on-year. Rental income rose 24%, with EBITDA margins at 55%. The company has 19 properties totaling 927 units, with an 85% occupancy rate. In April 2025, it raised €10.72 million in capital, continuing its expansion strategy. Debt ratio is 36% of net debt.

🏨 Gaiarooms, a digital hotel management company, plans to reach 4,000 rooms by 2028, with an investment of nearly €100 million in real estate, technology, and repositioning. CEO Enrique Domínguez reported a 2024 revenue of €14 million and €1.5 million Ebitda, expecting €20 million in revenue and €2.5 million Ebitda in the current year. They target boutique accommodations in mid-sized cities and have secured €10 million for digital expansion, €5 million annually for three years for acquisitions, and are setting up a €60 million European venture capital fund. Recent additions include a four-star Costa Brava hotel and an eight-room pension in León, and they are eyeing properties in Vigo, Lugo, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, Gijón, Oviedo, Llanes, and Córdoba. Expansion into Portugal has begun, and France and Italy are considered future markets. Gaiarooms also launched Gaiastays, a coliving and temporary rental division, intending to reach 1,500 units by 2027, focusing on Madrid and Barcelona.

🏕 TUI Group has opened its first hotel in Cambodia, the 189-room TUI Blue Sihanoukville, and launched the TUI Suneo brand in China with the TUI Suneo Shenzhen Manwan, featuring 215 rooms. TUI Hotels & Resorts, led by Artur Gerber, plans to open 26 new hotels across Asia in the coming years, with developments in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company currently has a portfolio of 22 resorts in Asia, including recent additions such as TUI Blue Maduzi Bangkok, TUI Blue Berawa in Bali, and TUI Blue Guilian Watermark Promenade in China, plus three more in Vietnam.

💡 On April 28, an outage in Spain led to a 34% drop in household consumption for the day. Despite this, consumer spending in April grew by 3.9% year-over-year, supported by Easter holidays. Post-outage, consumption recovered, mitigating the impact to a 15% decline for the day, with a less than 0.1% hit to the quarterly GDP (under €400 million). Adjusted for Easter timing, March-April average growth was 3.6%, with leisure/hospitality up 4.5% year-over-year.