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Strange absence of HI Partners at a Grupo Dunas event in Maspalomas

Strange absence of HI Partners at a Grupo Dunas event in Maspalomas

Dácil Santana Friday, May 24, 2024

The Dunas hotel chain held a golf promotional event this week without the presence of the chain's property. Someone still wants to confuse the economic authorities of the south of Gran Canaria by indicating that it is not convenient for HIP Hotel Investment Partners to appear where it has its interests when the gratitude that the business community has for venture capital funds is unanimous among professionals in the sector and circles of power. who, after the bursting of the real estate bubble, took destiny out of the hole. This Thursday Hosteltur pointed out that Jet2 has disagreements with the hotels managed by the funds because "they lose their soul"If Gran Canaria is not Acapulco today thanks to the funds and Socimis that invest in tourism that have allowed, among other aspects, to implement compliance mechanisms and remove weak investors from the business.

HIP Hotel Investment Partners is owned by Blackstone and took over the Dunas Hotels beds, maintaining the brand and certain managers after the financial problems that arose and paying 49 million euros for the complexes it controlled such as the Suites & Villas Dunas, belonging to Dunas Hotels & Resorts. The absence of the management staff of Las Palmas at the presentation ceremony of the XXVI edition of the Maspalomas Golf Cup 2024 Circuit, an event that has been consolidated over the years and that will start this Saturday with the so-called II Desokupa Canarias Tournament (pairs mode ). A paradoxical detail: The golf course where the Dunas event is held does not recommend any Dunas hotel on its website.

Maspalomas Golf will be the scene of competition for more than 2.000 golfers from May 25 to September 1. There will be 15 qualifying events and a Grand Final, both individually and in pairs, under the protection of almost twenty top-level sponsors. The Maspalomas Golf Circuit will bring together golf players from island, peninsular and international destinations and will be played under the individual stableford modality, in pairs best ball and medal play.

There will be 3 categories established by the organization with limited handicap, 1st category (0 to 9,4 hcp), 2nd category (9,5 to 18,4 hcp) and 3rd category (18,5 to 26,4 hcp) and scratch prize to the first qualifier per tournament. All the winners of the different qualifying events will obtain different prizes. The winners of each qualifying event of the Maspalomas Golf Cup 2024 Circuit will be classified as guests to play in the Grand Final of the XXVI Circuit that will take place on Sunday, September 1, ending with the awards ceremony and closing ceremony that will take place at Maspalomas Golf, sponsor official of the Grand Final and property managed by Lopesan, which manages complexes for HI Partners such as the former IFA Hotels and now with the Abora brand except the ex-IFA Faro Maspalomas.

 

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