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Grupo Piñero resumes its activity in a responsible, sustainable fashion at all the destinations

7/3/20
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  • The company will be resuming operations starting 1 July with the opening of six of its Bahia Principe Hotels & Resorts in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Spain, as well as its two golf courses in the Caribbean. 
  • The Travel (tour operator and incoming) and Services (rest of at-destination services) divisions will also be resuming their activity, offering travellers peace of mind, flexibility and safety.  
  • Ensuring the health of people and of the environments in the destinations where it operates remains one of the strategic pillars of the plan to reactivate all the Group's business units.

Palma de Mallorca, 29 June 2020 - Grupo Piñero, a Spanish tourism company with a history spanning more than 40 years, is gradually resuming the activity of its business units in the face of the progressive elimination of mobility restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 health crisis.

As noted by Group CEO Encarna Piñero: “At the beginning of 2020, after the launch of our new corporate identity and reinforced business strategy, we were making steady progress to better transmit not only what we are today but also where we want to go. The arrival of the COVID19 pandemic forced us to slow down and adjust our priorities, but in no way did it make us doubt the strategy. Quite the contrary, we are even more convinced of it: Being a prominent company in the international tourism market maintaining our 100% family essence and managing in a responsible way to offer the best experience to customers and employees, and actively contributing to Sustainable Development. 

Health and well-being are now more important than ever. Therefore, ensuring the health of people (employees, customers, suppliers and local community) and the health of the environment of the destinations where we operate are two basic pillars on which we have been working in recent years, and on which we will continue to focus in the short and medium term. ”

Through an action plan, on which the company has worked intensively in recent months, Grupo Piñero is adapting to the new economic, social and environmental paradigm, based on sustainability criteria and using the recommendations of the United Nations Global Compact as a framework for action. With its strategy it aims to generate changes and face the new scenario as a stronger and more efficient company. 

Grupo Piñero confirms its commitment to responsible and sustainable tourism and reinforces its standards by adapting them to the new post-Covid-19 health and hygiene needs, in collaboration with HS Consulting, to guarantee correct compliance with the regulations of each of the countries and destinations where it operates, the recommendations of the WHO and the protocols of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and the Institute for Spanish Tourism Quality (ICTE). 

Resumption of activities starting 1 July

Initially, Grupo Piñero will open six of its Bahia Principe Hotels & Resorts on 1 July. The rest will be opening gradually according to demand and the evolution of the situation, also taking into account the peculiarities of each destination. 

Specifically, two of its most emblematic hotels in Spain will be reopening: Bahia Principe Sunlight Costa Adeje in Tenerife and Bahia Principe Sunlight Coral Playa in Palma de Mallorca. In the Dominican Republic, another two will be reopening their doors: Bahia Principe Luxury Ambar and Bahia Principe Fantasia Punta Cana, both located in the Bahia Principe Bavaro complex at Punta Cana. Also resuming activities are the Bahia Principe Luxury Akumal, located on the Riviera Maya in Mexico, and the Bahia Principe Grand Jamaica in Jamaica.

Soltour, along with the retail networks, will continue to offer peace of mind, flexibility and safety to travellers

Soltour, one of the biggest and oldest Spanish tour operators, with more than 45 years of experience, is already operating on national flights since 22 June, and will be able to resume international traffic from 1 July, and foreseeably transcontinental flights to the Caribbean from 15 July. The resumption of its activity is contingent upon the opening of safe air corridors, and subject to the regulations of each of the destinations, always ensuring compliance with protocols and security measures of its suppliers in each of the countries where it operates. 

In addition, to give its customers greater peace of mind, Soltour has extended its travel assistance insurance coverage to include possible health incidents related to Covid-19. It is also continuing with its policy of flexibility in cancellations, promoting through campaigns a policy of reservations without cancellation fees up to 15 days before departure, which will be in force during the month of July and for trips with departure until 30 April 2021.

Firm commitment to health and safety

In order to offer maximum guarantees to its customers and collaborators, during these months Grupo Piñero has designed a comprehensive plan of health and safety measures covering the entire travel cycle. The plan focuses on four core principles:

1. Ensuring safe and healthy environments that promote peace of mind, comfort and enjoyment in the customer and employee experience.

2. Seeing to people's health and well-being. 

3. Guaranteeing safe and responsible services with careful and personalised attention.

4. Enhancing a digitalised and adapted experience.

To guarantee adequate implementation of and compliance with these measures, which are broken down at the operational level into different specific Protocols for each business unit and service area, the Group has created a Corporate Health and Safety Committee, which reports to the Corporate Responsibility Committee, and a plan monitoring committee for each business unit and each destination. The Group has also reshaped its services and dialogue with its stakeholders.