Sol Meliá hotel group is to add a new hotel in Lisbon, Portugal to its portfolio under a franchise agreement with the Tryp brand, and a second hotel in Frankfurt, Germany to be added to the Innside brand portfolio under a lease agreement. Both hotels will be newly built and will open in 2013 with a total of 330 rooms.
The four star Tryp Lisbon Airport Hotel will begin construction this year and will be located next to the arrivals terminal at the airport in the Portuguese capital.
The hotel will be perfectly adapted to the design standards of the Tryp city hotel brand and will provide 168 rooms, six flexible meeting rooms for events for up to 700 people, a gym, a restaurant and a cafeteria.
The four star Innside Frankfurt Hotel will be located opposite the future new headquarters of the Central European Bank, and will provide 162 rooms, 350sqm of meeting space, a restaurant, cafeteria, gym, spa and gardens.
This new hotel reaffirms the Sol Meliá commitment to Germany, the country with the second largest number of hotels in the company portfolio, now with 21 hotels.
There are currently nine Innside hotels in the most important German cities; the latest being the Innside Dresden Hotel, which opened in January.
