Business
Opening day for the Palacio
Today is a momentous day for Palma, Majorca and the industry that has evolved to be known as MICE - meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions.
Business
First Palacio event will be in mid-April
The first clients for the hotel will arrive on 3 April, when it is expected that sixty rooms will be occupied.
Business
Fourteen events programmed this year for convention centre
President Armengol said that the Palacio is something of which all the citizens of the Balearics should be proud.
Conferences and exhibitions
Palma's Palacio company is finally making money
The Palacio de Congresos company is now taking in a minimum of 5,000 euros a day from the rent being paid by Meliá.
Elena Sancho-Pereg - L'elisir d'amore - "Prendi, per me sei libero"
Elena Sancho-Pereg (Adina), Philipp Himmelmann (stage director), Kasten Januschke (conductor). Live recording at St. Margarethen Festival, July 2016
Tourism
Everything in place for Palacio de Congresos April opening
In around four years, the Palacio will have had more than 77,000 visitors and generated over 21,000 million euros.
Tourism
Palma taking part in Barcelona business travel fair
The Palacio de Congresos will naturally be to the fore in the Palma 365 promotion.
Tourism
Meliá will open the Palacio de Congresos on 1 April
"I can safely say that the whole complex, including the hotel, is in the best possible hands."
Tourism
Palma in talks over further winter tourism expansion
The UK's Institute of Travel & Tourism has proposed that the institute's 2018 conference be held at Palma's Palacio de Congresos.
Tourism
Palma's Palacio convention centre to open in March
Final agreement between Palma town hall and Meliá was signed in London today.
Business
Meliá wins the contest to manage the Palacio de Congresos
Meliá offered 2,150,000 euros annual rent plus 5.5% of turnover.
Palma
Court rules a suspension in Palacio de Congresos tender process
Hotusa was ruled out of the tender process following the opening of the first envelopes on 3 August.
Palma
Barceló and Meliá both bidding again for Palma's convention centre
The minimum price for renting the complex will be 1,585,000 euros a year, with the winner able to do so for fifteen years.
Palma
Document suggests Palacio contractor was to receive compensation
A document reveals that the PP were preparing a payment of 6.6 million euros compensation.
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Palma
Palacio operating company won't be known until end of the year
The period for the tender will be between July and August, and the winning bidder will have four months to get the whole site up and running.
Palma
Rent for Palacio and hotel will be around 1.6 million a year
Mayor Hila observed that the convention centre will allow events to be held on a scale that has not previously been possible and that this will help in creating employment.
Palma
Palacio company officially takes over the convention centre
After eight years during which work was on, then off, then on again, the Palacio de Congresos convention centre has finally been handed over.
Palma
Palacio convention centre will generate 20 million euros
The Palacio will generate 20 million euros revenue from some 20,000 visitors who will represent some 50,000 tourist stays.
Palma
The new Palma convention centre is now finally finished
Adrover said that today (24 February) was another step in the process towards the handing-over of the Palacio and also to completion. “I am sure that there will be a happy end.”
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