SOL MELIÁ VACATION CLUB REPORTS TOTAL REVENUE INCREASE OF 63 PERCENT OVER SAME SIX-MONTH PERIOD LAST YEAR

Sol Meliá Vacation Club is an internationally-branded membership club that focuses on providing leisure lifestyle experiences that include exotic destinations, designer-appointed luxury accommodations, exclusive services and unforgettable amenities. The leisure lifestyle concept is designed to provide members with an entire lifetime of leisure experiences to meet their ever changing needs.  Membership provides several options: the first - vacation club membership - provides a more traditional vacation time period (1 to 3 weeks) to accommodate a stage in life when there are larger families and children traveling together and require larger accommodations, more space, and fabulous facilities.  This concept provides a guarantee of prices of today through membership which makes this type of vacationing affordable year after year.  The second membership option offers longer-termed leisure time periods (4-8 weeks) that is focused more for those who have more leisure time available to them to travel, as well as more established finances, and who still desire a variety of destinations and luxury accommodations.  The final phase progresses to full ownership opportunities for those who wish to live in paradise all year long.

All members have access through SMVC to stay at all Sol Meliá’s hotels and resorts worldwide, including those in destinations such as Paris, London, Madrid, Rome and more.  With close to 20,000 active members since its inception, SMVC is rapidly growing its portfolio of international resort locations and is a strengthening force of Sol Meliá’s overall leisure real estate focus.  “The success of SMVC, together with Sol Meliá hotels, is based on having one culture, one goal, and a great understanding of each other’s business, as well as an understanding of our consumer’s expectations,” Grangé added.

Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts is a 50-year-old international hospitality company with 350 hotels in 30 countries on five continents.  Sol Meliá Vacation Club members enjoy the best of both worlds: all the conveniences and amenities of a world-class resort, plus the value, flexibility and choice that vacation membership offers throughout the Sol Meliá Vacation Network.  Members have more vacation lifestyle options through global luxury accommodations in a variety of unique resort and urban destinations around the world as well as the flexibility to choose the length of stay, season and size of unit.  In addition, Members can save their vacation time from one year to the next if needed, borrow from future vacation years to create a special experience that could include airfare or a spectacular cruise, divide their vacation time into shorter getaway or nightly stays or stay at any Sol Meliá hotel or affiliated resort worldwide.

For Sol Meliá Vacation Club details, call (407) 370-3671 or visit www.smvc.com.

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