Founded in 1972, in the island of Madeira, the Pestana Hotel Group is the largest international hotel group of Portuguese origin. With a journey of more than four decades of success, the Group owns and manages 87 units in Portugal and abroad, and also six golf courses, two casinos, three tourism real estate projects, 13 Vacation Club projects, a charter airline and a tour operator. In industrial manufacture and services, Dionisio Pestana's group participates in Madeira's Development Society, the manager of Madeira's International Business Center, and in the Brewery Company of Madeira. In total, there are nine business areas in which it operates: hotel industry, golf, casinos, touristic real estate, aviation, tourism distribution, Vacation Club, industrial manufacture and services. In the hotel industry, its main business, the Group currently operates three brands: Pestana Hotels & Resorts, Pestana Collection Hotels and Pestana Pousadas de Portugal, whose network management it took over in 2003. The Pestana Hotel Group recently announced a partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo to build a set of 4 hotels under a new brand, which will be the 4th of the Group. Present in 15 countries, it has about 11,500 rooms available in Europe, Africa and America and a team of seven thousand employees. In 2015 revenues reached 400 million Euros.