Iberostar
| Grupo IBEROSTAR SA
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| legal form | SA |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat | Palma , Spain |
| management | Miguel Fluxá, Executive Chairman |
| Number of employees | 28,000 worldwide (2018) |
| sales | 2 billion euros (2016) |
| Branch | Hotel and travel services |
| Website | http://www.grupoiberostar.com/ |
Iberostar or Grupo Iberostar is a group of companies in the travel industry with its headquarters in Palma , Spain . The Hotels & Resorts division has 120 hotel complexes in 17 countries with a total of over 37,000 rooms. The company also builds, brokers and sells condominiums within its resorts and golf courses and provides services for other tour operators, such as B. the organization of hotel transfers and excursions.
The group is still fully owned by the founding family Fluxà. In addition to managing the company, the family is also socially and culturally committed to the countries in which they do business. To this end, she established a charitable foundation in 2004.
history
prehistory
The Fluxà family was initially only active in the manufacture of shoes. The shoemaker Antonio Fluxà traveled to England in 1877, studied industrial shoe production there and, on his return, founded the first shoe factory in the Balearic Islands with a group of shoemakers in Mallorca. Production with the Lottusse brand was taken over by his son Lorenzo Fluxá Figuerol at the age of 21, who was very committed to the expansion and, above all, internationalization of the company. In 1956 he acquired the small tour operator Viajes Iberia , which was founded in 1930 and has grown to 40 employees, and brought the family into contact with the travel industry for the first time.
Development of further business areas
Due to the good economic situation prevailing at the time and the rapidly increasing tourism in Spain , the travel company grew rapidly. Miguel Fluxà finally concentrated entirely on this area and founded the tour and excursion operator Iberojet in 1973, and six years later the incoming agencies Iberotravel with branches in the United Kingdom in London and Manchester and under the name Visit US in Miami and Orlando, Florida, in the USA . In 1986 he finally got into the hotel business and opened the first IBEROSTAR Hotels & Resorts on Mallorca and the Canary Islands .
In 1993 the first hotel complex was opened in the Dominican Republic . This was also the company's first 5-star resort. In 1998 the airline Iberworld was founded and offered charter flights from Madrid to Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife. Iberojet Cruceros was founded only a little later, initially specializing in Mediterranean cruises for the Spanish-speaking market through the joint venture Spanish Cruise Line with the Greek Festival Cruises, and later independently with two chartered ships.
In 2004 the company achieved sales of EUR 828.1 million with 54,490 beds, 15,600 employees and 500 travel agencies. In the same year the IBEROSTAR Foundation was founded.
From the reorganization until today
In view of increasing economic difficulties in the following years, the family decided in 2006 to concentrate entirely on the hotel industry and only to continue the IBEROSTAR division . She left the other two corporate divisions, Grupo Receptor and Grupo Emisor , for EUR 800 million to the investment companies Carlysle Group at 55%, Vista Capital 36%, ICG Equity Fund 5% and around 4% to ten senior managers from the parts of the company affected by the sale . Numerous brands and company subsidiaries, including Solplan, Turavia or Viva Tours, the tour operator Iberojet, the travel agency network of Viajes Iberia, the airline Iberworld and the cruise operator Iberojet Cruceros have been transferred to the newly founded Orizonia Corporaciόn . As the buyers' new umbrella company, Orizonia initially continued to operate unchanged, but went bankrupt in 2013 and ceased operations on February 18, with more than 1,000 employees losing their jobs.
The new Grupo IBEROSTAR , which remained in the ownership of the family, only kept IBEROSERVICE in addition to the hotel and introduced the so-called “The Grand Collection” in 2007. Since then, the group’s luxury hotel complexes with at least 5 stars have been advertised under this new brand. In 2008 the company founded the new IBEROSTATE division for the real estate business ( golf, villas & condos ) in luxury holiday residences.
In 2015 the group acquired the Argentine online travel agency Almundo.com and NT Incoming , an incoming travel agency in the Spanish market.
Business areas
Today the Grupo operates the following three business areas:
- IBEROSTAR Hotels & Resorts , the hotel business, the flagship of the group
- IBEROSTATE Golf, Villas & Condos , for the construction of holiday homes and villas within the IBEROSTAR hotel complexes
- IBEROSERVICE , resort services, arranging and organizing trips
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Iberostar Group. In: Homepage of the group. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
- ↑ GRUPO Iberostar reports earnings of 2.03 billion euros in 2016 . Group press release in January 2017
- ↑ About us: IBEROSTATE Golf, Villas & Condos. In: Homepage IBEROSTATE. Retrieved July 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Homepage: About Iberoservice. (No longer available online.) In: Homepage IBEROSERVICE. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved July 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b IBEROSTAR’s fascinating history. (No longer available online.) In: Company blog Passport to ... (passporto.iberostar.com). Archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved July 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b 1000 jobs lost in Balearics as tour operator closes. In: Majorca Daily Bulletin. March 21, 2013, accessed November 25, 2013 .
