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Hesperia Investment Group reaches an agreement to acquire award winning
tourism, residential and sports resort La Manga Club The 560 hectare award winning resort –three
times the size of Monaco- located in the Spanish region of Murcia, off ers some of the best views
of the Mar Menor and Mediterranean seas as well as the Calblanque nature reserve. The resort
includes a 5 star hotel, 200 apartments, over 15 bars and restaurants, a cove overlooking the
Mediterranean Sea and a 2.000 sqm wellness centre. It also boasts three 18 hole championship
golf courses , a 28 court tennis centre, 8 FIFA size football pitches and the European Cricket Per-
formance Centre.
Barcelona, 31st of July, 2019-. Hesperia Investment Group (GIHSA), headed by its president Jose
Antonio Castro Sousa, has reached an agreement with Arum Group to acquire a majority stake
of the luxury resort La Manga Club, with a total area comprising of 560 hectares with a privileged
location in front of the Mar Menor and Mediterranean seas and adjacent to the nature reserve of
Calblanque.
La Manga Club is a tourism and residential resort with a wide range of sports facilities which until
recently belonged to Inmogolf, a company linked to Arum Group. Additionally, GIHSA will invest in
the improvement of the complex in order to create the best leisure and sports resort in Southern
Europe.
Arum Group will continue to run the real estate business in La Manga Club through its subsidiary
Inmogolf, with a great development potential due to the touristic appeal of its excellent location.
Jesús Abellán, CEO of Arum Group, points out that “Hesperia is the optimal partner to continue
with this expansion project as this deal strengthens not only the resort’s further extension but also
the development of the whole area, with a huge potential for residential tourism growth”.
A strategic deal for GIHSA
Since its opening in 1972, La Manga Club has gone through diff erent development stages until
becoming one of the most renowned leisure and sports resorts in Southern Europe. With this
strategic deal GIHSA boosts its business activity in the premium resort business arena and brings
its expansion plan a step further after initiating its new independent business plan at the end of
last year.
According to Jordi Ferrer, CEO of GIHSA, “this operation perfectly matches our growth strategy in
the hotel market with quality assets that allow us to keep consolidating as a reference in the
Spanish hotel industry and in particular this acquisition will allow us to create the best resort in
South Europe”.
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