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- Cesar_Balsa abstract "Cesar Balsa (1923–2007) was a Spanish-born hotelier and restaurateur who worked in the hotel and restaurant industry in Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only child of Elisa Carralero and Antonio Balsa, a Spanish barber.At the age of twelve he started his career as a bellhop at a Spanish hotel. Over the course of 10 years, he worked his way up to restaurant management and hotel operation, and at age 21 was appointed General Manager of Food and Beverage Services at the Palace Hotel in Madrid.In 1948, he emigrated to Mexico City and went on to become the head of the hotel and restaurant conglomerate Nacional Hotelera S.A., which included The Presidente Hotel chain in Mexico. Among them, the first air conditioned luxury Hotel in Acapulco and Cozumel, as well as several popular restaurants and night clubs such as Can-Can and Focolare, in Zona Rosa. In 1958 Balsa signed a contract to operate the Prado-Alfer Hotel in Mexico City, in 1960 he acquired the famous Hotel Del Prado, then the largest hotel in Mexico When he took over the Hotel De Prado, the dining room had a mural by Diego Rivera, twenty meters long and seven high, showing Sunday in Central Park. The mural was hidden by columns, so he moved it to the middle of the lobby, where it could be seen.In April 1963 Balsa signed a partnership / management contract with Antenor Patiño to operate the newly built 600 room Maria Isabel Hotel in Mexico City at the time the largest Hotel in Latin America, in November that year Sheraton and Balsa Hotels signed a collaboration agreement in which Sheraton would Represent Balsa Hotels in the United States and Balsa would represent Sheraton in Mexico. To this day the Maria Isabel still stands in Mexico City and is known as Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and TowersInternational ventures included the lease and operation of The St. Regis Hotel in New York, and the Villamagna Hotel in Madrid, Spain. Together with ARA Inc. Cesar Balsa handled the catering for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, serving 10,000 athletes and 30,000 meals a day. In 1963 he became president of the Mexican Association of Hotels and Motels. The Secretariat of Tourism and the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística grant a medal every year that bears his name, to recognise those who excel in the tourism industry.".
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