Following the international tourism hiatus caused by COVID-19, RIU Hotels is gradually taking up operations again.
In Spain, 15 hotels are scheduled to reopen in all the destinations. They are in Madrid, Mallorca, Formentera, C?diz, M?laga, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. The hotels will open between June 15 and the first week of July.
The first Spanish hotels to open on June 15 are the Riu Bravo and Riu Concordia hotels in Playa de Palma, Mallorca. Riu Plaza Espa?a in the centre of Madrid opened on the same day. In the Canary Islands, the first hotel to welcome back its guests will be Riu Gran Canaria, located in the south of the island. It opens on June 19, along with two of the chain?s hotels in Andalusia, Riu Chiclana and Riu Costa del Sol, as well as Riu La Mola in Playa de Migjorn on Formentera.
On June 26, they will be joined by the Riu Palace Meloneras and Riu Palace Tres Islas hotels, located on Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura respectively, while July 1 is the scheduled date to reopen the Riu Calypso hotel, also on Fuerteventura, and Riu Paraiso Lanzarote. The following day, Tenerife will return to action with the opening of Riu Palace Tenerife, shortly followed by Riu Palace Palmeras (Gran Canaria), Riu Arecas (Tenerife) and Riu Nautilus (Torremolinos).
In this way, RIU is starting to offer its national and international customers access to all its Spanish destinations once more, by opening at least one hotel in each of them. The chain has also reopened operations in a total of 15 more countries, with hotels open or about to open in: Germany, Mexico, United States, Bulgaria, Portugal, Ireland, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Aruba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Morocco, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.
All the reopening hotels will strictly follow the 17 safety protocols set out in the RIU Manual for Post-COVID Hotels.
