Meliá Hotels International, the leading hotel company in Spain, continues to make progress in its ESG projects and has now been named among the leading companies in Europe for diversity. The company has made significant progress in recent years thanks to a commitment to offer a work environment focused on equality and diversity.

In a special report on diversity in major companies, the Financial Times has identified European companies in different industries that are showing leadership and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. The classification of companies has been made by Statista, which has also carried out a survey of more than 100,000 European workers. The factors taken into account in the assessment were age, gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and diversity in general.

Among all the companies analysed, Meliá Hotels International has also been named one of the top 10 companies for diversity in Spain. This acknowledgement is the result of Meliá's best practices in employment and its strong commitment to its employees. In the company's second Equality Plan, introduced in 2019 and currently still in force, Meliá assumes a commitment to promote diversity in nine key areas: access to the company, recruitment, promotion, training, remuneration, occupational health, gender violence, communication and work-life balance.

In addition to commitments in all these areas, Meliá Hotels International also actively promotes training on equality at every level in the company. As a pioneer in reaching an agreement with the IUF (International Union of the Hotel Industry) to combat harassment, Meliá has further strengthened its support for a more diverse, fair and safe work environment.

Meliá Hotels International has also been part of a cluster of companies called ClosinGap since 2018. The objective of the cluster is to reduce the gender gap in employment through an analysis of the opportunity cost for the economy of not taking advantage of female talent. The company's efforts have led to it forming part of the Ibex Gender Equality index, a ranking based on the number of women in managerial positions in listed Spanish companies which only considers companies with at least 25% of women on the Board of Directors. 36.36% of the positions on the Meliá board are currently held by women, and the company aims to reach 40% by 2023.

Meliá Hotels International has also recently been named a Top Employer Brand in Spain, Mexico and the Dominican Republic due to its excellent work environment and best practices. These three countries currently account for 46% of all company employees.

About Melia Hotels International

Founded in 1956 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Meliá Hotels International has more than 400 hotels open or in the process of opening, in more than 40 countries, and a portfolio of ten brands: Gran Meliá Hotels & Resorts, ME by Meliá, The Meliá Collection, Paradisus by Meliá, Meliá Hotels & Resorts, ZEL, INNSiDE by Meliá, Falcon's Resorts by Meliá, Sol by Meliá, and Affiliated by Meliá. The Company is one of the world's leading hotel chains in the leisure segment and its experience in this area has allowed it to consolidate itself in the growing market of urban hotels inspired by leisure. Its commitment to responsible tourism has led it to be recognised as the world's most sustainable hotel in 2022 according to S&P Global's Corporate Sustainability Assessment, as well as being a "Top Employer 2023" brand in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Italy and Germany. Meliá Hotels International is also part of the IBEX 35. For more information, please visit www.meliahotelsinternational.com