THE British hotel group Travelodge has taken over the Campanile Hotel in Murcia City as part of its expansion plans in Spain.
The Murcia hotel was owned by Louvre Hotels under the Campanile brand and comes as part of a deal with the company where Travelodge has also acquired premises in Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, and Malaga.
It means the former Campanile establishments have doubled the Travelodge presence in Spain.
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Five of them have been taken over on a freehold basis and one on a long-term lease by Spanish subsidiaries of Travelodge. Spain, totalling 773 rooms.
The two-star Murcia hotel is on Avenida Juan Carlos I next to the El Puntal tram stop and has 117 of rooms with a 19 m2 area.
It also has two meeting rooms of up to 60 m2 both equipped with an LCD screen and projector, aimed at business meetings or private gatherings.
Travelodge opened its first hotel in Spain back in 2004 in Madrid, followed by other establishments in Barcelona and the Madrid region, including the city of Coslada last year.
Company CEO, Jo Boydell, said that Spain is an important market for the chain with significant expansion opportunities.
Last year, Travelodge identified the top 20 key markets for opening a new hotel in the country where there is a lack of value-for-money accommodation to meet the needs of business and leisure guests.
Founded in 1985, Travelodge has a portfolio of nearly 600 hotels with more than 46,000 rooms in the UK, Ireland and Spain and more than 22 million guests annually.
