Meliá Hotels International, the leading hotel company in Spain, has obtained the highest rating in the world tourism industry in the latest S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), corresponding to the sustainable performance of companies in 2022. This result is obtained despite of the growing demand for the index, which has caused declines in the valuation of 25% of the more than 10,000 companies analysed.
S&P Global's CSA is the world's most comprehensive and prestigious annual assessment of the sustainability performance of companies across all sectors, focusing on both economic and governance, social and environmental criteria, as well as industry-specific criteria. . Meliá has participated in it since 2018, when it obtained third position in the sector, to lead it in 2019 and 2020, and maintain leadership in Spain and Europe in 2021, with second place globally.
On January 20, 2023, the evaluation once again positions Meliá at the top of our industry ranking, with an overall score of 74 points out of 100. Of the three "dimensions" of the analysis, Meliá obtained the highest score of the industry in the first two (Social, with 72 points, at the same level as the company Asset World Corporation) and Economic and Governance, with 81 points) and more specifically, it also leads the score for the sector in criteria such as the following:
• Risk and crisis management
• Environmental report
• Climate strategy
• Social report
• Human rights
• Human capital development
• Consumer relationship management
After the devastating impact that the pandemic had on the tourism industry, the most intangible aspects of companies have become more relevant. For Gabriel Escarrer, Executive Vice President and CEO of Meliá, "in the current complex environment, sustainability has emerged as one of the most important values of companies, and for Meliá, especially because of our family nature, it is today a key factor for promote our transformation and respond to the demands and expectations of our clients, collaborators, shareholders and investors, hotel owners and society in general. For all of them, we are proud to revalidate this recognition as the most sustainable hotel company in the world for another year”.