SEPI Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales

• This prize recognizes the success of those tourist businesses which have been systematically been awarded positive opinions and assessments from travelers

The Parque Minero de Almadén (MAYASA) has been awarded for the third year in a row the Certificate of Excellence of TripAdvisor, which recognizes the quality in hospitality, and which is awarded only to those facilities which have systematically obtained good opinions from travelers at TripAdvisor.

The prize is awarded only to those businesses which continually receive exceptional opinions from travelers at TripAdvisor, and any business in the world which meets the requirements can opt to it. The facilities which have won the Certificate of Excellence are located all over the world, and can be found among the first places in the businesses advertised at the organization’s website.

For selecting the winners in this prize, the organization makes use of its own algorithm which takes into account quality, amount and freshness of the opinions shared by travelers at the website along a 12-month period, as well as the permanence and the popularity index of the business in the website.

In order to be eligible for this prize, the businesses must keep a general score in the web of at least four bubbles out of five, have a minimum number of opinions, and having been present in TripAdvisor for at least 12 months.

'With the Certificate of Excellence, TripAdvisor acknowledges the success of the hotel and catering businesses which have been systematically awarded positive opinions and assessments from travelers” declared Ms. Heather Leisman, marketing Vice President for the industry, TripAdvisor.

“This acknowledgement helps travelers to identify those facilities which regularly offer a good service and to book at them. TripAdvisor is pleased in playing this essential role of helping travelers to feel more confidence when making a booking” he pointed out.

MAYASA and Grupo SEPI

MAYASA belongs to Grupo SEPI, a corporate holding which includes a total of 16 state-owned companies in which it has direct, majority shareholding participations, with a final workforce of more than 73,000 professionals in 2014; the Spanish state-owned television and radio corporation, Corporación Radiotelevisión Española, which is attached to SEPI, and one public foundation. Equally, SEPI has direct minority shareholdings in a further ten companies, and indirect shareholdings in more than one hundred companies.