Iberostar Hotels & Resorts (Spanish: Iberostar Hoteles y Apartamentos S.L.) is a hotel chain based in specializing in 4 and 5-star hotels. It is owned by Grupo Iberostar, which also owns Iberostate Golf, Villas & Condos and Iberoservice, its incoming tourism division. Grupo Iberostar is owned by Spanish billionaire Miguel Fluxà Rosselló, the third generation heir to a shoe-making business.
The company's trademark is "first line" hotels (meaning directly on the beach), surrounded by gardens.
Iberostar's head office is in Mallorca, Spain, and hotels that operate under their brand name are located in the continents of Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa.
The company temporarily closed the Rose Hall Beach Hotel (but not the adjoining Rose Hall Suites Hotel or Rose Hall Grand Hotel), one of its resorts in Jamaica. It reopened in May 2010.
Travel Trade Gazette, a UK-based travel industry publication, named the company "Best Hotel Chain of the Year" in 2009. One of its directors is Manny Fontenla-Novoa, who was also the chief executive of Thomas Cook Group.
In April 2010, Iberostar announced that the actor Antonio Banderas would be the new face of a global campaign to promote the company's hotels and resorts.
Iberostar has been getting negative press related to resorts in Mexico suspected of drugging tourists. There have been... "numerous reports from others who have told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel they experienced sickness, blackouts and injuries after drinking at Iberostar and other resorts around Cancun and Playa del Carmen in recent months.". Iberostar's resort location in Playa del Carmen was also cited in another couple reports by the Journal Sentinel and CBS News regarding TripAdvisor and its controversial review guidelines, after red-flag reviews of two women who stayed at the resort in 2010 and 2015 respectively who were allegedly raped, one by a security guard who worked for the resort, were taken down by the travel website.
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External links
- Official website
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