SolL Melia Expands Sales Mangement Team

New Senior Director of Meetings & Events Appointed

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. June 10, 2010

June 9, 2010 - Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts announces the appointment of John Iannini, CTC as the Senior Director of Sol Melia Meetings & Events in the Americas. A long standing member of the incentive travel community for the past two decades, his expertise in international meetings and events will be beneficial in leading the field-based sales team to develop business from all group market segments.

Before joining the Sol Melia team, Iannini successfully founded and managed Incentive Travel Services, Inc. a full service New Jersey-based company, which he launched in 1990. His company designed, planned and operated hundreds of programs in thirty five countries over seventeen years. In 2007, he joined the global sales team for Wyndham Hotel Group as their subject matter expert for the incentive market. Iannini has been an active member of SITE since 1990 and a member of MPI since 2008.

“Sol Melia is excited to have John Iannini join our meetings and events team. With his extensive experience in the meetings sales and marketing field, I am certain he will prove a very valuable asset to the brand,” said Alvaro Tejeda, Senior Vice President of Sol Melia's Premium Portfolio.

Iannini studied at the University of Denver's School of Hotel & Restaurant Management and he resides in Miami.

About Sol Melia
Sol Meliá was founded in 1956 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) and is the world's leading resort hotel chain, as well as Spain's leading hotel chain in both the business and leisure markets. It currently provides more than 300 hotels in 26 countries on four continents under its brands:
Gran Meliá http://www.gran-melia.com/
Meliá http://www.melia-hotels.com/
ME http://www.me-by-melia.com/
by Meliá, Innside http://www.innside.com/
by Meliá, Tryp http://es.solmelia.com/hoteles/tryp/tryp.html
Sol http://es.solmelia.com/sol-hoteles.htm
Paradisus http://www.paradisus.com/ and
Sol Meliá Vacation Club http://www.smvc.com/ .

In 2006, the “Corporate Reputation Institute” of New York ranked the company amongst the corporations with the best reputation in the world, the leading hotel company and the second highest ranked company in the travel industry. Sol Meliá is the only travel company included in the exclusive “Footse4Good Ibex” Spanish stock market index, and is the third ranked company in Spain amongst companies which generate the greatest degree of confidence and in the top three hotel chains for reputation.

In 2008 the company approved its Global Sustainability Policy and in 2009 it was named the first “Biosphere Hotel Company” by the Responsible Tourism Institute, supported by UNESCO. In the same year it was also awarded the Prince Felipe Award for Tourism Excellence for the second time.

The company currently employs more than 33,000 people worldwide with staff from over 90 different countries. The company fully respects equal rights and balance in its contracting of male and female staff and 10% of its workforce is made up of immigrants.