SOL MELIA ANNUAL REPORT 00 COMP

MILESTONES 2000 · EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE CAMPAIGN
With Sol Meliá, everything is possible
mMore than 33,000 people in 30 countries on 4
continents are at work every day to ensure that
when we say that in Sol Meliá “everything is
possible” we really mean it. It is the excellent
work and enthusiasm of this immense team
that is the principle ingredient in the company’s
recipe for success.
During the year 2000 Sol Meliá has very successfully
incorporated the more than 2,000
employees of the Tryp hotel chain to the team.
Together with the incorporation of a stream of
new hotels due to the rapid growth of the company,
the deal has led to the creation of many
new opportunities for professional development
and an enriching exchange of experience
and know-how.
Training and promotion are the foundations
on which Sol Meliá human resources policy is
built, a philosophy that has remained intact
since the day the company began. An example
may be seen in the collection of training courses
out together by the Human Resources
Department aimed at achieving company
objectives on product and service quality.
The company also continues to develop its
extensive internal Management Development
Programme for Hotel General Managers, inaugurated
in 1988, based around an 18-month
period of theoretical and practical training
followed by a period as Assistant General
Manager in a hotel before moving up to a
General Manager position. The Human
Resources Department also coordinates
Corporate Career Plans for key positions in
the company structure, and internal development
programmes for Sales Managers and
Administration Managers.
“The success of any
good business person
depends on them
surrounding
themselves with a
truly great team
and in a situation
where positions are
earned rather than
granted”.
”
D. Gabriel Escarrer Juliá,
Chairman
On an institutional level, Sol Meliá enjoys
active and fruitful relations with prestigious
universities and other centres of learning
world-wide co-operating on the placement of
students and training courses.
In June 2000 Sol Meliá signed an agreement
with the Autonomous University of Barcelona to
jointly develop projects aimed at improving the
training and education of future professionals
in the tourism and hospitality industries.
The agreement includes cooperation in developing
an integrated tourism training model to
cover the entire educational cycle and combine
both practical and theoretical learning. More
than 1,000 students from the Catalonian
Tourism and Hospitality faculties will be given
in-house training at the Tryp Campus, a hotel
which is managed by Sol Meliá and located in
the same building as the two faculties.
The company has also been involved in a
large number of similar projects including
sponsorship of wine education courses ate the
Balearic Islands University or the course on
Tourism Development Management organised
by the University of Wisconsin-Stout, the
Balearic Islands Hotel School and the Balearic
Islands University Tourism School. The company
also reached an agreement with the
Galicia Hospitality School to train senior
managers.
Finally, the Sol Meliá website (www.solmelia.com)
also has a special section for employment
opportunities with the company and a
dedicated e-mail service for candidates at
(rrhh@solmelia.com).
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