MeliaMeliá Hotels International was founded in 1956 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) and is one of the world’s largest resort hotel chains, as well as Spain’s leading hotel chain. It currently provides more than 350 hotels in 35 countries on 4 continents under its brands: Gran Meliá, Meliá, ME, Innside, Tryp by Wyndham, Sol and Paradisus. Its product and service portfolio is complemented by Club Meliá, the only vacation club operated by a Spanish company. In 2011, the family company founded by Gabriel Escarrer Juliá, that operated under the name “Sol Meliá” for decades, began a new stage in its development under the brand name that represents its present and its future: Meliá Hotels International.