Hotel Alba Caracas
History
In the 1930s, coffee plantations covered the hotel site. In 1944, the area became the first corporate headquarters of Creole Petroleum. In 1955, the headquarters became a National Security government building government of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. In 1965, engineer Juan Sánchez Carranza was chosen to construct an apartment building on the site, which was completed the following year. However, before residents moved in, the building was repurposed as a luxury hotel and rebuilt.
The hotel was officially opened by President Rafael Caldera on October 31, 1969 as the Caracas Hilton. In 1984, a tower wing was added.
In 2007, the government-owned hotel let its management contract with Hilton lapse after 38 years. The hotel was renamed Hotel Alba Caracas, after the ALBA, Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America" and was revamped as a "socialist" hotel. On April 15, 2010, it was placed under the management of the state-run Venetur group.
References
- ^ https://www.foxnews.com/story/venezuela-changes-name-of-caracas-hilton-converts-to-socialist-hotel
- ^ Carroll, Rory (2009-10-22). "Workers of the world, relax! Chávez takes over Hilton". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
- ^ "Hotelería Venetur y sus estrellas que no brillan | Clímax". elestimulo.com (in Spanish). 2015-10-13. Retrieved 2024-12-13.