Spain’s Melia to Open Luxury Hotel in Northern Iran


Spain’s Melia to Open Luxury Hotel in Northern Iran

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Meliá Hotels International SA, a Spanish hotel chain, said the group plans to open a five-star hotel in Iran’s Mazandaran province as early as next year.

“We firmly believe in Iran’s tourism potential,” Gabriel Escarrer said in a statement, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

He added, “We have always been pioneers in the development of new markets.”

The property will be built next year in a 130-meter (427-feet) tower in the city of Salman Shahr, Mazandaran province, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, Escarrer further said.

Iran’s first foreign-branded hotels in decades arrived in October, when French operator Accor SA opened a Novotel and an Ibis near Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport.

There has been growing international interest in trade ties with Iran since Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 finalized a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear program and implemented it on January 16.

The comprehensive nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), terminated all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran after coming into force.

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