Hotel Hanga Roa, also known as Hanga Roa Eco Village & Spa, as of 2020 branded as Nayara Hangaroa, is a hotel in Hanga Roa, Easter Island, overlooking the bay on the Avenue Pont.[1] The hotel was used extensively in the 1994 film Rapa Nui.[2] In 1994, the hotel was purchased by the Panamericana hotel firm who extended the property with 10 fake thatched roofed bungalows, nine of which have three rooms.[3] The 60 other rooms are located in the main building. Later, the hotel was acquired by Tanica hotels, owned by the Schliess family from mainland Chile. The Hito family, an extended family from Easter Island, occupied the premises for six months in 2010, claiming ancestral property rights.[4] The hotel closed in 2011 for refurbishment and was projected to include a new museum and theatre, shopping complex, pool, tennis courts and other rooms.[3][5] The hotel staff were mainly Rapa Nui locals, but the management was not from Easter Island.[6] After a protracted conflict between the Hito family and the Schliess family, an agreement was reached in 2020. Under the agreement, property rights were transferred to the Hito family while the Tanica hotel group retained the right to exploit the hotel for 15 years. In 2020 the Costa Rican Nayara Resort group took control of the marketing.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Nayara Hangaroa | Leading Hotels of The World | Easter Island, Chile". Nayara Hangaroa. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  2. ^ "Rapa Nui y Hollywood: producción fílmica en Te Pito O Te Henua". 1library.co (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  3. ^ a b Stanley, David (1 January 2000). South Pacific Handbook. David Stanley. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-56691-172-6. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Familia Schiess sella acuerdo con el clan Hito y pone fin a una década de disputa por el terreno del Hotel Hanga Roa | GDA – Grupo de Diarios América" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  5. ^ Gill, Nicholas; Pashby, Christie; Schreck, Kristina (16 June 2011). Frommer's Chile and Easter Island. John Wiley & Sons. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-118-10187-2. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  6. ^ Connell, John; Rugendyke, Barbara (25 March 2008). Tourism at the Grassroots: Villagers and Visitors in the Asia-Pacific. Routledge. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-415-40555-3. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  7. ^ "Nayara Resort asume comercialización del Hotel Hanga Roa". El Correo del Moai (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-20.

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