BUCHAREST (Romania), August 22 (SeeNews) – Warsaw-listed hotel group Orbis, the strategic partner of AccorHotels in Eastern Europe, said on Wednesday that it will open a Mercure hotel in the Romanian town of Sibiu at the beginning of 2019, together with its local partner and investor, Pritax Invest.
Following its renovation, the existing Ana Airport Hotel will join the international Mercure network in the first quarter of 2019, offering 85 rooms, bar, restaurant, wellness, banqueting and parking facilities, Orbis said in a press release.
“Romania is playing a key role in our development strategy, an attractive market with strong potential for hotels under well-recognized international brands,like Mercure. Orbis is the leading hotel operator in Eastern Europe with 127 hotels and with the opening of Mercure Sibiu Airport in partnership with Pritax Invest,we are further strengthening our leading position in the country," Orbis CEO and president, Gilles Clavie, said.
The hotel is the closest accommodation facility to the Sibiu International Airport, and is located only a few minutes drive from the city center of Sibiu.
Mercure is AccorHotels' midscale hotel brand with 770 properties in 61 countries.
Founded in 1995, Pritax Invest is a privately-owned company with its main activity in the field of hotels.
Earlier this month, Orbis said it will open an ibis brand hotel in Romania's capital Bucharest in the first quarter of 2019. Ibis is the economy brand of AccorHotels. In July, Orbis said that it will open the first hotel of the ibis brand in the western Romanian town of Timisoara in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Also in July, the Polish group signed an agreement for the purchase of Mercure Bucharest Unirii hotel in Romania for 11.35 million euro ($13 million).
Orbis comprises 127 hotels and is the sole licensor of all AccorHotels brands in 16 countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It offers a total of 21,000 rooms.
The hotels operate under the brand names Sofitel, Pullman, M Gallery, Novotel, Mercure, ibis, ibis Styles and ibis budget.
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