Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC), an international vacation membership club with locations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Europe, has been awarded the prestigious RCI Gold Grown Resort designation by RCI, the worldwide leader in vacation exchange, for its Gran Meliá Puerto Rico resort in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, minutes from the El Yunque rainforest.

A select number of RCI affiliates meet RCI’s requirements for this annual honor and have earned the RCI® Pinnacle Award. As a top-performing RCI affiliate, Sol Meliá Vacation Club has received the award for its volume of business.

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC), an international vacation membership club with locations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Europe, received a total of four award nominations at the 2010 American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Annual Convention and Awards Reception in Las Vegas in the categories of Sales VLO/QAO, Owner/Customer Relations Manager, electronic newsletter and [...]

Dominican Republic and Canary Island resorts become part of elite group

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC), an international vacation membership club with locations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Europe, has joined The Registry Collection®, the world’s largest luxury exchange program including luxury fractional, whole ownership, private residence club, high-end timeshare, villas and manors, luxury cruises, yachts and private jets. Sol Meliá Vacation Club at The Reserve at Palma Real and The Reserve at Paradisus Punta Cana, both in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and Sol Meliá Vacation Club at Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, now have the prestigious “by invitation only” affiliation with The Registry Collection.
“It’s an honor for us to have these three distinguished resorts meet the high standards of affiliation with The Registry Collection,” said Denis Ebrill, Sol Meliá Vacation Club’s Executive Vice President. “We also are very excited that its gives our Members access to high-end exchange experiences within an elite portfolio.

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC), an international vacation membership club with locations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Europe, has received the 2010 Gold Crown Resort® awards by Group RCI, a worldwide leader in vacation exchanges with more than 3.5 million members globally, for all of its resorts in the Dominican Republic — The Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real, The Reserve at Paradisus Punta Cana, Paradisus Palma Real and Meliá Caribe Tropical.

Sol Meliá, the 15th-largest hotel chain in the world and the leading Spanish hotel and resort company, has launched a comprehensive brand assurance evaluation program across its global portfolio of hotel and resort brands. To execute the program, Sol Meliá has partnered with LRA Worldwide, Inc., a leading firm in the design and development of performance measurement and quality assurance programs for the hospitality and lodging industries.

Premium Rental Inventory Will Be Distributed LeisureLink, Inc., the leading distribution and revenue management platform for specialty lodging suppliers, today announced a new distribution agreement with Orlando, Fla.-based Sol Meliá Vacation Club.  The company chose LeisureLink’s Demand Management System to distribute premium rental inventory to consumers and travel agents. “We look forward to bringing Sol [...]

Sol Meliá Vacation Club, an international leisure vacation membership club with locations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Europe, has opened Phase II of the Gran Meliá Puerto Rico member resort at Coco Beach, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, with 63 additional suites.  The 1, 2 and 3 bedroom oceanfront suites accommodate four to six [...]

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC) is opening a new project, The Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic late this year that will feature 190 one and two-bedroom lock-off units with modern upscale design, exotic Balinese beds, private hot tubs and direct access from the lower level patio units into a spectacular [...]

Sol Meliá has named Denis G. Ebrill as the new Executive Vice President of Sol Meliá Vacation Club to lead the company’s strategy in the vacation club business, one of the key areas of growth and development for Sol Meliá over the coming years. After the successful launch of the Sol Meliá Vacation Club business [...]

Now in its fourth year of operation, Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC) is reporting a strong first half of 2008 with a growth in total revenues of 17 percent over the same period last year. The overall improvement in revenues has also resulted in a continued net profit margin of 40 percent for the first [...]

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC) announces the appointment of Utah-based 6 Dimensions Consulting for the supporting of the SMVC in-house IT team with the implementation and roll out of a new information system that will be used by all SMVC resorts for lead generation, sales administration, accounts receivable, loan servicing, reservations, property management and member [...]

Sol Meliá Vacation Club, with over 15,000 members worldwide, recently selected TimeShareWare’s Enterprise 2008 software solution to manage its 12 resorts and four sales centers in Spain, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. TimeShareWare Enterprise 2008 will interface with Sol Meliá’s proprietary central reservations system and the hotel PMS systems. It will also interface with [...]

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (The CLUB) announces the opening of its latest CLUB resort, The Reserve at Paradisus Punta in the Dominican Republic, which features 192 luxury oversized one-bedroom suites and one-bedroom master suites with lavish amenities such as plasma TVs in the living room and bathroom, hydro massage showers, private balconies, Jacuzzi for two, [...]

Following a banner year in 2007, after just three years in operation, Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC) is reporting a strong start to 2008 and its fourth year with a total revenue increase of 22 percent for the first quarter of 2008, over the same period last year. The overall improvement in revenues, along with [...]

ORLANDO, Florida (March 10, 2008) — Orlando-based Sol Meliá Vacation Club (The CLUB) has rolled out an exclusive, customized training program for its member resort concierge employees using the Paradisus Palma Real in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic as its beta site. The training program focuses on optimizing services, and anticipating guest needs in order to [...]

MADRID, Spain (March 3, 2008) – Today’s Investor Day Conference for Spain-based Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts had a vacation club success twist as Sol Meliá Vacation Club (The CLUB) Chief Executive, Alain Grangé, told of the CLUB’s $130 million in revenues and $50 million in net profit in 2007 after just three years in [...]

Just three years ago, in 2004, Sol Meliá Vacation Club (The CLUB) started by promptly developing three international properties.  Today, the internationally branded club, which is part of Spain-based Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts, has 13 international locations in Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America with more than 20,000 members worldwide.  In 2008, the [...]

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC),  in its third year of  operations, is already celebrating a banner 2007 with its nine-month profitability 61% above an already  2006 record year.  This success is owed, in part, to the widespread success of new projects in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, the Dominican Republic and Central America. The Orlando-based company, [...]