Palma de Mallorca, August 24, 2022.- Grupo Piñero, a Spanish tourism company with almost 50 years of history, has invested more than €950,000 in the 2021 Training Plan to support the professional growth of its employees. Through this program, the company has provided more than 180,000 hours of training adapted to the specific needs of every position. As a result, more than 102,000 people have benefited from the various activities carried out by the company throughout 2021.
This program, under the company’s Strategic Sustainability Plan 2022-2030, specifically under the People strategic axis, aims to improve the quality of life of people, paying special attention to safety, health and well-being in addition to favoring professional growth within the Group. In this way, the company engages in socially responsible management that will allow it to create value in the long term and continue to be a benchmark company in the tourism market.
Thus, in 2021, various sustainability awareness training courses were taught, and environmental awareness activities were carried out to integrate environmental, social and ethical criteria in business management within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
In the words of Victoria Capellà, Corporate Human Resources Director of Grupo Piñero, “we are continuously working on the implementation of projects that enable the professional and personal development of our employees, as they are the ones who make the company’s achievements possible. In this sense, we are aware that our human capital is our main asset, a fundamental piece in the materialization of our purpose, which is to create exciting experiences. That is why at Grupo Piñero we are committed to the socially responsible management of all employees to ensure the attraction and development of talent.”
Driving Talent
Grupo Piñero has launched the Talent Management Program to give employees a greater role in their professional development. Through this initiative, different processes are carried out to learn about expectations, needs and challenges in terms of development, while setting objectives and an action plan to carry them out with a multidisciplinary approach. In 2021, 7.35% of the professionals have grown within the company and, specifically, 31% of those promoted were women.
In addition to developing internal talent, Grupo Piñero is also undertaking different initiatives to recruit professionals. To this end, the company is working on the Employee Experience Program so that both the company’s professionals and new recruits have a professional and personal growth plan in place that is aligned with the Group’s culture and values.
About Grupo Piñero
Grupo Piñero is a 100% family-run and -oriented Spanish tourism group founded in 1977 by Pablo Piñero. Led by Isabel García (President) and her three daughters, Lydia, Isabel and Encarna Piñero (CEO and Executive Vice-President since 2007), it is committed to creating exciting experiences. With a track record stretching back almost 50 years, it carries out its management in a responsible manner to offer the best experience to clients and employees and to actively contribute to society as a whole, based on a strategic plan with sustainability at its core, and sustainable growth and innovation as the pillars of the strategy.
It structures its activity into three business units: Living Resorts, for its hotel business, with 27 establishments and more than 14,000 rooms in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica and Spain, residential complexes and golf courses; Travel, with its tour operating activities under the Soltour and Smytravel brand names, through Soltour Travel Partners, and reception under the Coming2 and Services brand, which groups other at-destination services.
Since 2014, Grupo Piñero has incorporated sustainability into its management in order to be a company that is responsible and committed to its team, to the communities where it operates, to its suppliers and to the environment. Through its Corporate Responsibility strategy, it pursues an ethical and transparent management model that generates shared value for all its stakeholders, leaving a legacy for society, contributing to social development and environmental protection in all the areas where it is present.