Apple Leisure Group
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| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Hospitality, Travel, Tourism |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Headquarters | Newtown Square, PA, United States |
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Key people
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Alejandro Zozaya (CEO) Javier Coll (Executive VP) Jeff Mullen (COO) John Hutchinson (CFO) |
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| Revenue | $3 billion |
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Number of employees
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25,000+ |
| Parent | Bain Capital |
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| Website | appleleisuregroup.com |
Apple Leisure Group (ALG) is a vertically-integrated travel and hospitality conglomerate focused on packaged travel and resort/brand management in Mexico and the Caribbean. It is the parent company of resort and brand management company AMResorts and its loyalty program, Unlimited Vacation Club. ALG also oversees tour operators Apple Vacations and Travel Impressions, online travel agency CheapCaribbean.com, as well as destination management company AMStar DMC.
In 2001, current ALG CEO Alejandro Zozaya, founded resort sales, marketing, and brand management company, AMResorts. Over a decade later, he led the effort to form Apple Leisure Group by making tour operator, Apple Vacations, a sister company of AMResorts. ALG received an influx of equity in late 2012 when it sold an undisclosed stake in its business to Boston-based global private equity firm, Bain Capital. In 2013, Apple Leisure Group quickly added to its family of companies with the acquisition of online leisure wholesaler, CheapCaribbean.com, and B2B tour operator Travel Impressions from American Express. Rounded out by destination management company, Amstar DMC, and AMResorts’ guest loyalty program, Unlimited Vacation Club.
Founded in 2001 by Alejandro Zozaya, AMResorts operates all-inclusive beachfront resorts under 6 different brands in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Curacao and Panama. The brands managed are:
AMResorts have said that, by the end of 2018, they expect to operate at least 57 resorts in 27 destinations and 8 countries.
In 1969, John Mullen and his brother-in-law, Al Atkinson, founded a small travel company called Atkinson & Mullen. Years later, Mullen renamed the company Apple Vacations as he became the sole proprietor and entered into one of the larger travel package operators in the U.S.
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