page_title: Club Med
section_title: Expansion
hierarchical_section_title: Club Med / History / Expansion
caption_attribution_description: English: Club Med 2 is a 5-masted sailing ship owned by Club Med. Launched 1992 at Le Havre, France. Passengers: 400, crew: 200. Length 187 metres, gross tonnage 14,983. She cruises in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Atlantic. Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in Capri Harbour, Italy, in June 2007, and placed in the public domain.
context_page_description: Club Med SAS, commonly known as Club Med and previously known as Club Méditerranée SA, is a French travel and tourism operator headquartered in Paris, specializing in all-inclusive holidays. Founded in 1950, the company is primarily owned by the Chinese conglomerate Fosun Group since 2013. Club Med either wholly owns or operates over seventy all-inclusive resort villages in holiday locations around the world.
context_section_description: In 1961, the company was purchased by the 35-year-old Baron Edmond de Rothschild after he had visited a resort and enjoyed his stay. With Rothschild financing, the number of villages increased greatly under Trigano's leadership from 1963 to 1993. Winter villages, providing skiing and winter sports tuition, were introduced in 1956 at Leysin, Switzerland. In 1965, the first club outside the Mediterranean was opened in Tahiti. Club Med broadened its reach by opening villages in the Caribbean and Florida where English rather than French was the main language.
  Originally attracting mainly singles and young couples, the Club later became primarily a destination for families, with the first Mini Club opening in 1967.
  The Club has also ceased to be a club in the legal sense, changing from a not-for-profit association to a for-profit public limited company (French SA) in 1995. However, each new customer is still charged a membership fee upon joining, and returning customers are charged an annual fee as well.
caption: Club Med 2 is a 5-masted cruise ship owned by Club Med. The sails are automatically deployed by computer control. Club Med 2 was launched in 1992 in Le Havre, France. The ship, carrying up to 400 passengers with a crew of 200, cruises the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Atlantic.
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