With the presence of President Luis Abinader, the chain Meliá International Hotels made the first bite for the reconstruction of the Paradisus Punta Cana hotel, this Sunday morning.
During the event, David Collado, Minister of Tourism, said that this investment will be 200 million dollars and will have 1,200 rooms.
He indicated that this is in line with the thoughts of the Tourism Cabinet, of encourage foreign investment in this 2023.
At the event it was reported that the current hotel will be demolished starting tomorrow, Monday, to build the “most modern and sustainable hotel in the Caribbean”.
The vision of the chain
Gabriel Escarrer Jaume, CEO of Meliá International Hotels, explained that this is a special day for the Meliá. “From the beginning, I have held up this country as an example for its great public-private collaboration,” he said.
He assured that in the 47 countries in which Meliá is present, always sets the example of the Dominican Republic for being “the country that has best managed covid-19”.
“Month after month records are being broken with the arrival of touristsin addition to putting quality and value in everything that this wonderful country has,” he said.
He commented that this hotel will be “the best in the Caribbean”, as it will be “an example of quality, sustainability and a reference in terms of luxuries“.
He recalled that he promised President Abinader that Meliá would invest with its partners more than €400 million and they would create more than 3,700 jobs.
Hotel Features
According to the architect Álvaro Sans, this will be a hotel that will form part of a new generation of Hotels in a lot that has 500 frontal meters of beachin an area of 35 hectares.
The 35 hectares have two of mangrove swamppark or protected area.
“More than a third of the site is natural area, where the divided density is 1,440 rooms per hectareso we are going to use 300 to 400 fewer rooms per hectare, because we are not interested in massifying this lot,” said Escarrer.
He added: “What we are interested in is making a unique hotel. This new generation of Hotels It is not only because of the design that the hotel has, but that the 50 percent of the hotel will be premium”.
Also notified that the fifty % of the hotel rooms will be suiteswhich will be located on the two ground floors of the four that the complex will have.
25% of the hotel suite would have a private garden and private pool, the same would happen to us with the roof of the place, which is where the other 25% of the hotel would be located. Also, I would have a rooftop pool.
“The most important thing about that hotel is that we are going to reduce carbon footprint 80 percent. This makes this hotel a benchmark, not only in the Dominican Republic but worldwide,” he said.
