Club Med celebrates the opening of its first Exclusive Collection resort in the Americas - Michès Playa Esmeralda

Fosun Tourism Group (Stock Exchange stock code: 01992), the world’s leading leisure-focused integrated tourism group, officially inaugurated its recently opened resort, Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda, on 30 January in the Dominican Republic. Michès Playa Esmeralda is the first Exclusive Collection resort in the Americas of the Group, with an eco-chic concept featuring a four-boutique-village design for the ultimate in guest personalization.

The President of the Dominican Republic, his Excellency M. Danilo Medina Sanchez, and Henri Giscard d’Estaing, President of Club Med, celebrated the official opening of Club Med Playa Michès Esmeralda, in the presence of Minister of Tourism, Its Excellencies Ambassadors of France, of the United States of America and Dominican Republic in France, Distinguished members of the Parliament and Elected Representatives, Federico Bencosme Ulloa, Mayor of Michès and The President and VP of Pionneer Investments Funds.

More than 300 guests from 18 countries attended the inauguration ceremony of Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda resort.

Elected officials, local leaders and institutions, partners, investors, journalists, influencers, key opinion leaders and celebrities were among the first to discover Club Med’s second resort in Dominican Republic.

The Ideal Place to Discover the Treasures of the Dominican Republic

As an unspoiled paradise hidden in the heart of a Dominican palm grove, Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda offers an exceptional year-round setting with lush, tropical vibes and warm weather.

The resort, perfectly integrated into its environment with a low-density design, offers guests a sense of intimacy and personalization due to an original architecture concept that seamlessly blends four boutique villages together within the resort including Explorer Cove, Caribbean Paradise, Emerald Jungle and Archipelago. Four boutique villages provide over 330 rooms in total.

With its unparalleled beaches and breathtaking sights, Miches is a truly hidden paradise, and is now open for guests to explore through the resort’s excursions program. Excursions allow guests to explore places like Laguna Limón, a stunning nature reserve; the 170-foot-high cascading Limón waterfall; Samaná Bay, featuring protected islands with native flora, wildlife, and a known site for whale watching; and Montaña Redonda, a “rounded mountain” with 360-degree panoramic views of the surrounding flourishing landscape, known for its photo-famous swings.

Commitment to Sustainable Tourism

Since Club Med was built around one ideal: to live together in harmony and reconnect with oneself and others in beautiful destinations, Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda acts as the new catalyst for Club Med’s environment-friendly positioning and all excursions of the resort will be entirely carbon offset. Devoting its design, activities and elements to the surrounding region, the resort pays homage to Miches’ ecological essence so guests who visit the resort can understand the natural beauty that first attracted many locals to the destination.

The eco-certification of the construction of the resort is under way with BREEAM, an international and independent eco-construction certification among the most demanding and recognized in the world. The Green Globe certification audit will come within the year to eco-certify the daily operation, as per most of Club Med’s resorts which are currently Green Globe certified. It is a challenging certification that is reassessed annually for a continuous improvement of practices.

Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda also aims to be sustainable through the products it serves by sourcing many local products, and through the way it serves them: single-use plastics have been removed from the bar and restaurants of all of Club Med’s resorts in the world, with the objective to fully ban all single-use plastics from all the Club Med resorts around the world by 2022.

Qian Jiannong, Chairman of Fosun Tourism Group, said, “Adhering to the upscale strategy, the Group opened four new resorts under the brand of Club Med in 2019.  Since the acquisition of Club Med in February 2015, the Group has opened 14 new resorts in total. In the future, the Group will continue Club Med’s business expansion, and strength our leadership in global leisure tourism market”