Our partner Catalonia Hotels & Resorts will open a new 3-star-hotel in Barcelona in late 2015. The hotel will be located between the Magdalenes Street and N’Amargós Street, near the Cathedral, in the Barcelona Old Town. The new hotel will be the number 27 owned by the company in Barcelona: 17 of them are 4-star-hotels …
Category Archive: Legal Tips and News
Oct 14
How to plan a successful event?
Undoubtedly, the setting is one of the most essential clues to hold a great event. Depending on the setting you choose, the attendants will feel in one kind of place or another. Due to this, it is fundamental to pick out the correct scenario in order to succeed in your event. What to take into …
Sep 19
Gran Hotel Elba Estepona awarded twice
The Gran Hotel Elba Estepona, in Malaga, has been awarded with two prestigious distinctions in the current year. This five-star hotel has achieved the Tripadvisor Excellency Certificate 2014, which is given by the opinions of users from all over the world. This is the third year in a row in which this hotel wins this …
Aug 07
Now Scandinavia and Madrid are closer
The second most important low cost airline in Scandinavia and the fifth in Europe, Norwegian, has inaugurated a new operations base in Madrid-Barajas Airport. Due to this opening, Norwegian Air Shuttle (official name) has recently launched seven new routes not only to Scandinavian destinations, but also to other cities in Europe. These are the new …
Jul 14
Meliá opens three new hotels in Spain
The largest Spanish Hotel Chain, Meliá Hotels International, S.A., has opened two new high quality hotels in the Balearic Islands (Mallorca and Ibiza) and another in Estepona (Malaga). ME Ibiza ME Ibiza is a new 5-star hotel settled just in front of the beach of this exclusive island, to which it is possible to get …
May 21
The Spanish DMCs will launch an international promotion programme
The Meetings and Events Industry Forum, in which the Spanish DMC’s play a relevant role, have agreed to launch a new and more effective strategy to promote Spain as an unsurpassable destination for meeting and events trips. This decision has been reached in an official encounter between the Meetings and Events Industry Forum representatives and …
May 09
Spanish MICE Sector will celebrate MICE Pride Day
Our sector will have its own day! May 12 is the date chosen to commemorate the MICE Pride in Spain. This will be the first time in which the Spanish Meeting Tourism Sector will celebrate this day, but we hope May 12 will become the most special annual date for all the ones involved in …
Apr 09
The politeness of the Meeting Tourism Sector
“Is the Meeting Tourism a polite sector? Undoubtedly, yes”. This is what the Mexican company Industria de Reuniones (Meeting Industry, in English) have published and explained in their last article (text in Spanish). Why is polite the Meeting Tourism Sector? Firstly, because Meeting Tourism employees have to deal face to face with clients every day, …
Apr 03
Catalonia gets 27% more revenue in Meeting Tourism in 2013
1.6 million tourists visited Catalonia to attend meetings, congresses or conferences during 2013. This means 15,7% more visitors than in 2012. They spent around €1.800 million, 27% more than last year. Meeting Tourism is going on the right track in Catalonia. This has been the message widespread by the Agència Catalana de Turisme (Catalan Tourism …
Feb 06
Spain is the third country in the European Union in air traffic
Five Spanish airports are in the Top 30 of the European Union airports with more passengers. Madrid, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Malaga and Gran Canaria are the airports that have a place in this prestigious list, and they make Spain the third country in Europe with highest air traffic. This information has been published …