The executive received the Lifetime Achievement award which recognizes his great contribution to the development of the international tourism industry throughout his professional career
More than 800 representatives of the international tourist industry could hear the recorded message yesterday that Gabriel Barceló Oliver, president of the Barceló Group, sent them from the island of Mallorca to thank for the award of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, which was collected in his name by Raúl González, CEO of the hotel group for EMEA.
An award that is part of the 19th Edition of the well-known "Worldwide Hospitality Awards" and that, as the same winner recognized, "was not expected", although he was "very excited to coincide with the 25th anniversary of his retirement and his appointment as president of Honor of Barceló Hotel Group ", a group that remains very close and proudly observes that" the current co-presidents, who took over after our withdrawal, have managed to multiply by 5 the volume of business, in addition to improve the economic solvency and the image of the company ".
Gabriel Barceló Oliver started working in the family business in 1939, at only 11 years old, and in 1950 he had his first contacts with the tourist sector through the bus with which his family began to transport tourists on the island of Mallorca. Since then the company has not stopped growing and today has a large and prosperous division of travel and a hotel chain that occupies the 3rd place in the national ranking and the 29th internationally.