Barceló Hotels - A technology partnership spanning a decade renews for another 4.5 years

Tuesday 09 February 2010

Barceló Hotels & Resorts  is a privately owned Spanish Group, managing 187 hotels across more than 15 countries and 3 continents. In the UK, Barceló operates 21 4-star hotels (formerly the Paramount Group of Hotels) in inspiring locations across Scotland, Northern England, Central England, Southern England and Wales, from vibrant city and town centres, spectacular coastal resorts and countryside retreats.


The technology services relationship between Xn and the hotels managed by Barceló UK dates back a decade, when the group installed Xn’s POS system into the Paramount Hotel Oxford in 2000. Xn’s next generation POS system, Xn dotPOS Enterprise, was first selected and installed at the Palace Hotel Buxton in April 2001. In September 2002, protel MPE was selected as the group’s preferred PMS and first implemented at the Carlton Hotel Edinburgh on 2 December 2002, in a centralised, multi-property environment - one of the first such centralised deployments in the United Kingdom. All 13 properties in the group were rolled out over the next 8 months. Expanding to 21 hotels, all subsequent UK-based Barceló hotels have implemented protel MPE. 

More recently, the year 2006 saw the group roll out Xn globalRES to provide seamless connectivity and rate parity to GDS channels. In 2007,  the rollout continued to include the Xn globalRES Web Booking System seen at www.barcelo-hotels.co.uk, as well as several connected IDS channels.

“Xn has been a valued partner of ours for several years now, implementing and supporting systems which are crucial to our business”, stated Enrique Sanchez, Chief Financial Officer, Barceló UK. “We are very pleased to extend our contract until June 2014 and look forward to a continuing co-operation between our respective organisations”.

“The evolving requirements of Barceló have very much driven the expansion of our own globalised product line” says Greg Spicer, Managing Director, Xn Hotel Systems Ltd. ”We are delighted to renew our UK partnership with Barceló Hotels for a further 4.5 years”.