The Spanish hotel chain Barcel Hotels Resorts will expand its offerings in Cuba next July with the opening of Arenas Blancas, a four-star hotel with 358 rooms, at the Varadero resort in central Matanzas province.

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The Spanish hotel chain Barceló Hotels Resorts will expand its offerings in Cuba next July with the opening of Arenas Blancas, a four-star hotel with 358 rooms, at the Varadero resort in central Matanzas province.

Prensa Latina news agency reports that Arenas Blancas and the Solymar hotel will combine to form the Barceló Solymar-Arenas Blancas all-inclusive complex with 883 rooms.

With this new facility, Barceló has six hotels and over 3,000 rooms in Cuba, which makes the island the third most important destination of this Spanish group in Latin America only behind Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

This Spanish company from Majorca also manages two five-star facilities in Varadero: the Barceló Marina Palace and Cayo Libertad, with 548 and 85 rooms, respectively.

Last year, the group opened the Barceló Cayo Santa Maria, a modern luxury complex in Cayo Santa Maria, a small island located north of the central province of Villa Clara. This complex has two five-star hotels with more than 1,000 rooms.

Last February, they inaugurated the Barcelo Habana Ciudad, a five-star facility with 186 rooms, which is their only city hotel.