Ilunion announces 2020 plans to open hotel and special employment center

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The president of the ONCE Territorial Council in Euskadi, Rafael Ledesma, recently announced that next year Ilunion Hotels, the ONCE Social Group chain, will open the first hotel and special employment center in the Basque Country in Bilbao, and 70% of its staff are people with disabilities.

“The first four-star hotel in Euskadi that will be a special employment center will be in Bilbao, it will be a new hotel, newly built and we hope to open it in 2020,” said Ledesma.

Once opened it will be the second establishment of Ilunion in Bilbao, after which it opened in 2015. The accommodation is already under construction and will have 47 workers, of which 33 will be people with disabilities.

Ledesma has not yet anticipated the exact location of this project and has argued that "only" it is possible to anticipate that it will be in Bilbao.

The Ilunion Bilbao, the only hotel in the ONCE chain in the city, opened since 2015.

The territorial delegate of the ONCE in the Basque Country, Juan Carlos Andueza, pointed out, for his part, that they already have more than 12 hotels that also function as special employment centers.

Andueza has stressed that although most workers will have some disability "does not take away" that this space can be classified as a 4-star hotel.

In total, the Ilunion chain has 26 hotels in Spain with 4,435 rooms. In 2018, it invoiced more than 112 million euros.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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