Palma de Mallorca, Spain (September 29, 2015) – Meliá Hotels International today announced that its 30th hotel in Germany will open in Frankfurt in early 2019. The company currently has 24 hotels and six in the pipeline in Germany, a market which is now its second largest by number of hotels, only behind Spain.
Meliá Frankfurt, a four-star hotel, is a new construction project located in the Bockenheim district, next to the Natural History Museum, less than one mile from the central railway station and adjacent to one of the largest trade fair sites in the world. The site is the former campus of the renowned Goethe University, which will be completely transformed during the development of the new hotel.
Meliá Frankfurt will consist of 291 rooms and several dining options; a spectacular sky bar; meetings and events facilities; a car park; and a full YHI spa, Meliá’s signature spa brand. The 140-metre tall building will also house business apartments from the 16th to the 40th floor, all with an iconic and unique architectural design.
With the opening of Meliá Frankfurt, Meliá Hotels International will operate nearly 900 rooms in the city, from midscale to upscale, with Innside Eurotheum (74 rooms), Innside Niederrad (146 rooms), QGreenHotel by Meliá (177 rooms), and a new Innside hotel in Ostend (210 rooms) which is currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2016.
Germany has become the most important growth market in Europe for Meliá Hotels International and is also a source of significant potential growth in the future. In 2014 the company saw 11% growth in RevPAR (revenue per available room) in Germany.
"We are thrilled to have extended our presence in one of the most important cities in Europe and with a truly landmark hotel, which will further enhance the positioning of our Meliá brand and give a strong boost to international awareness,” stated Gabriel Escarrer, Vice President and CEO of Meliá Hotels International.
Meliá Hotels International aims to boost brand awareness for the Meliá Hotels & Resorts brand in Germany, where it already has properties in cities including Düsseldorf and Berlin, through this landmark hotel. It also expects to benefit from the lucrative trade fair activity in Frankfurt, where some of the most important international events in the world, such as Musikmesse and the Frankfurt Book Fair, take place.
With a corporate team based in Dusseldorf and more than a thousand employees through the country, the Spanish hotel company has consolidated its growth in Germany through three of its brands: Meliá Hotels & Resorts, TRYP by Wyndham and Innside by Meliá. The latter was founded in Germany and added to the company brand portfolio in 2007, and has experienced significant growth across four continents since then. Meliá Hotels International will open five new Innside hotels in Germany through 2017.
