Gabriel Escarrer Juliáfounder of Meliá Hotels International, died this Tuesday at the age of 89, as confirmed by company sources to Europa Press. In June 2023, resigned from the presidency non-executive of the Board of Directors of the chain, and went on to occupy a position of honorary presidency.
Your son, Gabriel Escarrer Jaumewas appointed new president, maintaining his responsibilities as CEO at the head of the company. Escarrer Juliá already secured the future of the chain in October 2018 through the transfer of powers to the family companies holding 46.969% of the shares of the hotel group.
The founder of Meliá, one of the largest hotel companies in the world, left his presidential position a year and a half ago at the head of a company that he led for almost 70 years after being recognized as one of the drivers of the internationalization of Spanish companies in the world.
His son, Gabriel Escarrer Jaume, is in charge along with the former tennis player. Rafa Nadal of the promotion of the ZEL Meliá brand, the hotel chain launched in collaboration with the Manacor star. Last Monday, both were present at the inauguration of the hotel ZEL Punta Canathe first outside of Spain from the new Meliá brand.
Gabriel Escarrer Juliá was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1935. From a young age, he showed a entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for the hospitality industry. Had 21 years when in 1956 he founded what is now the Meliá Hotels International group, acquiring and managing a 60-room hotel on the island of Mallorca, where he was born, and where he still maintains his headquarters.
For almost seven decades, under his presidency, the tourism group consolidated its leadership in Spain, the cradle of vacation tourism in Europe, to later extend it to the American Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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