At its 2013 La Quinta Conference, La Quinta announced it is accelerating its international growth, through a series of agreements with an affiliate of Grupo Santos, a Honduran organization whose affiliates include a construction and development company. The agreements will bring La Quinta hotels to cities in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama.

Meliá Hotels International has announced results for 2012 which show an increase of +7.9 percent in revenue per available room (RevPAR), fully explained by improvements in average room rates. In terms of source markets, the global trend enabled the Company to generate a dramatic increase of 47 percent in stays from Latin American source markets such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile.