Spanish hotel chain Sol Melia is to offer guests free ‘Life Management’ classes at some of its hotels.

As part of a new campaign to highlight its wellbeing credentials, the chain has teamed up with Mario Alonso Puig, a leadership expert and well-known life coach.

Throughout October and November, Puig will appear at three of the hotel’s properties in Europe (the Hotel Meliá Madrid Princesa, Hotel Meliá White House, London and Hotel Meliá Berlin) to give a free ‘masterclass’ on positive thinking.

Spanish hotel group Sol Melia is to open a landmark hotel in London ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games, it announced this past week.

The ME London hotel will open in London’s Aldwych, close to Holborn, Trafalgar Square and Covent Garden, in a landmark building previously occupied by the BBC and Marconi Company.

The hotel is slated to open in 2012 with 172 rooms designed by British architect Norman Foster, the man behind Hong Kong International Airport, Beijing Capital’s International Terminal and London’s “Gherkin” building.

Spanish hotel chain Sol Melia is to open its first hotel in the US October 15, the firm announced September 7.

The brand, which has a strong presence in Spain and South America, as well as hotels in several other countries, says that the opening of the Sol Melia Atlanta is a “landmark” for the company.

It will invest $35 million in the Melia Atlanta, formerly known as the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown, to adapt it to the standard of its other Melia hotels.