
Meliá Hotels International today presented results for the first half of 2012. The group’s profits are up by 24%, exceeding market expectations.
RevPAR maintains a positive trend, increasing by 8.5%. This is attributed to the 11.1% increase in prices.Consolidated EBITDA was of €105 million, an increase of 0.2% compared to the same period in 2011.Revenue from sales through the site meliá.com experienced a 34.3 % increase in compared to the first semester of 2011.In the first half of 2012 Meliá opened 5 new hotels (representing 702 rooms): two in Majorca, the Meliá Dubai, the Marina Palace in Bulgaria, and the Gran Meliá Rome. Meliá currently has 31 hotels in the pipeline.
